The Infighting Between Crypto Communities Needs To Stop

There has been something bothering me for a while, but I have been moistly ignoring it because it is extremely hard to stop malicious behavior on the internet, but it has gotten so bad that I decided to finally talk about it. Plain and simple, the amount of infighting between crypto communities is getting worse and only makes the crypto revolution look bad. Disagreeing with someone is one thing, but going out of your way to insult someone, laugh at someone when something unfortunate happens or go as far as to send anonymous death threats is inexcusable. I strongly believe that there will never be just one currency and that each currency can have a niche market, even if one was to have the majority of the market cap. No matter which blockchain or currency succeeds, we will be better off as a society so why are we trying so hard to sabotage each other. We mostly are fighting for and want the same future (with small variants) and all this infighting does is make us look weak as a community.
The biggest fight going on right now is between bitcoin and Ethereum, mostly because each of them has a market cap over a billion dollars. Bitcoin maximalists attack Ethereum at every corner calling it a scam and laughing at investors when they undergo network attacks and experiments like the DAO fail. Ethereum supporters do the same when exchanges are hacked and people lose their money. The thing is, Ethereum and Bitcoin are complementary far more than they are competitive. The fact is, it doesn’t matter if money from the outside comes into bitcoin or ether, both help enrich the crypto space by making it more diverse and adding value through adding new possible use cases. The fact is, each of the currencies has strengths and weaknesses that can’t be changed, so shoving them into each other’s faces is doing nothing but creating a crypto civil war. Most people are thinking only about their money when they go into complete troll mode, which is stupid because the success of bitcoin would bring large amounts of money into Ethereum and vice versa.

The real fight that needs to be going on is the fight against private blockchains, because they are the real threat. Many people like Andreas don’t see them as a threat, but companies are going to settle for the chain that just gets the job done whether it is public or not. Until something like a massive hack or a large exploit happens, they are going to continue pumping the private blockchain and disregard public blockchains. Instead of attacking each other over small issues on public blockchains, we should move our effort towards going after private chains and informing people the benefits that public chains have, over them.

We as a community need to police the bad actors in our own spaces and stop upvoting them on social media sites like reddit. Giving them the satisfaction from trolling only adds to their bad behavior. We need healthy disagreements and talks that raises legitimate questions, but we need to silence those who act maliciously. If you see comments or posts that add nothing to the conversation and are obvious trolling, we need to downvote them as a community. Especially on a system like steemit, which is completely community driven, we shouldn’t allow this behavior. I’m far less worried about steemit as I am about reddit however, where most of the trolling takes place. Circle jerk anti-altcoin posts get upvoted to the moon, while people who talk about actual benefits they coins can offer to the community are labeled as shills.

I am pro bitcoin, pro Ethereum , pro Steem and pro altcoin, because each offers valuable insight into the future possibilities of what we can do and institute in the space. Small cap altcoins are a great place to be innovative and try new things, while the stability and large market cap of bitcoin offers value in other places. Each coin benefits the community in some way, even if they end up failing. Most of the failed companies during the era of the internet still added large amounts of value to the space that was borrowed by later companies. The great thing about open source is we can create and borrow features from each other to make the crypto space better and more resilient, so let’s put down our arms and stop this arbitrary fighting.

-Calaber24p