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As a christian I am a monotheist. The goal isn't to be a monotheist. The goal is to know God. The issue would be if Christians were wrong and there were multiple gods. Some believe that. Its not an issue as long as we accept each other's difference and live in peace with one another. Humanities issues are the flaws with human nature. Not fundamentalism. Just wanted to say that first.
Here's the issue with maximalism.
- Its needed
- It will never be everyone
We need people that hold the line. That have beliefs grounded in knowledge and facts. People that will not budge. People of principle. People like this help us avoid becoming deluded by compromise.
We also need pragmatic people. People that understand the tradeoffs and are able to see where a compromise is a win for everyone.
We also need people that are open and do not hold to dogma. These people can be the ones pushing back on us. Keeping all of us in balance.
I never worry about maximalists. Honestly all the talk by them and about them gets old. I don't call myself a maximalist but I just don't like labels. Labels are for lazy minded people. In the end this obsession with maximalism has nothing to do with bitcoin. I've said it before, its about psychology. I recommend reading "The Righteous Mind" by Jonathan Haidt. His research and book are helpful in understanding people that do not think like you think.
One more question:
Reading through the change log, I followed a link to the SN post about web of trust. This made me think of something I've been thinking about a bunch lately, from using PKM tools (Logseq is my current one) where making it easy to talk about things is a design goal. Making it easy to talk about things through links, search, and automatic back links, causes a densely structured graph to emerge, a very useful kind of semantic knowledge store. It's pretty remarkable how it all pops out.
This is relevant bc at first SN looks like Hacker News, with the familiar features; but the more I dig into it, the more it seems like you're playing around with hybrid ideas about how communication should work online -- you alluded to some, above, wrt Zaps. I'm curious if this, too, is something you've thought about playing with: other ways to structure conversations, make them findable, referenceable, etc., beyond the familiar message board paradigm?
Don't get me wrong, doing the familiar thing well is a substantial contribution, and there's enough experimentation w/ btc integration to keep anyone busy. Just wondering how far your experimental aspirations go :)
Hi, I’ve been an Unchained customer for years with a multisig. I recently condensed some UTXO’s and it went really smooth. I’d like to ask some questions around the upcoming yearly fee you are going to charge. I get it’s hard to provide services for free, but the $250 feels like a lot especially for minimal engagement with your team and products, then inheritance planning is an additional fee. Would you consider more piece mail fees based on needs?