ICO has 95% of the scams. This is my experience. I have participated in no less than 1,000 ICOs, but 80% of the 90% of them cannot be said to be a scam because office had sent you ERC20 tokens, but it after listing price only <1/10.
Therefore, ERC has become the main force of ICO, and it also has the cause and effect of its speculation.
The BTC is therefore unable to become a leader.
BTC at beginning release, because of the lack dispersion ( concentrated at someone ).
now people's acceptance BTC and use BTC, but not more, because he join to late, he think , he use BTC, 
= to lift the car for the those Early person. Therefore, the BTC participants will not be very enthusiastic. On the contrary, ERC participants is better enthusiastic.

We can be sure of is that the blockchain came to stay, of that there is no doubt. Now if it will be bitcoin or another alt the main currency in the future, I think the maximalists are wrong, the bitcoin is the precursor of the crypts and has fulfilled its function but have come out other projects with considerable improvements, in my opinion currencies like ethereum that allow smart contracts where each company can create tokens backed by the same network have a great future .

I share your thinking, being bitcoin maximalist goes against the same concept of bitcoin.

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@knircky Much of what you say is completely true I agree with you in your opinion, meanwhile the Biycoin is one of the best known, when you converse with someone about crypto coins and these are not very familiar, the first thing they mention is the Bitcoin , use it as a reference, so much so, that when the Bitcoin experienta a low in price, all other currencies follow it as a domino effect, then, it is simple to observe how the leader in this type of coins, and how people treat this kind of informs As Anteriromente explains, the Bitcoin will continue to be the first to mention when it comes to Crptomonedas.
I am sure it is not the only crpto viable currency, but it is the one that has kept up to significant values, for longer, and, the facts speak for themselves, there may be many opinions found, but ultimately the bitcoin will continue to maintain its Resistance between certain significant and attractive values, it will remain safe and stable in its cryptography, and its trajectory supports it, I am sure that it prevailed.

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i still hold my btc . i am not expert in crypto but i just believe btc will come back with more power.

I also dont understand the bitcoin maximalists and thinking that we need ONE coins is just stupid. I think that in the future we will have many coins and users will not even know since every coin will be payable via interchain transactions to any other. People will choose which coin to hold according to the features the value the most. 

While bitcoin maximalists are certainly strange, what I see much more are bitcoin minimalists, claiming that bitcoin is not useful anymore. But there I would disagree very much!

Bitcoin is ...
__the most secure coin__. It has PoW which is tested and well understood. It has massive hash power behind it. The code is permanently reviewed by hackers trying to brake it to make profit. Developers are very careful. Blocks are small so that it remains reasonably decentralised. Imagine a coin like 0x suddenly shoot up to the marketcap of bitcoin? Would anyone find a serious bug. I think that is rather likely.
__it is leading innovation__. Currently the smartest people are developing bitcoin. They move slow and are not trying new revolutionary ideas. But there is still a lot of innovation implemented in bitcoin. The big question is what happens to lightning network. 
__it has strong fundamentals and does not try to do everything__. Open decentralised and secure money is a solid product. No need to add more.

What I see is bitcoin making a lot of development in a good direction. It may seem boring because of all the alternatives that make crazy claims and have revolutionary new ideas. But these are not properly tested at large stake and often nothing but empty promises. It is far to early to declare bitcoin dead. I have not seen a real alternative so far. Because just changing blocktimes/sizes is not revolutionary, neither is using PoS which currently should not be used for open money but rather for smart contracts. 

When I see a great new idea, I am happy to look into it, but as of now bitcoin is still the leader because it is just as good but more mature than all of the alternatives. Right now the biggest question is lightning. If it works well and people can use it comfortably, bitcoin will certainly have a very good medium term outlook.

For now bitcoin is a large-scale gamble scheme with elements of religion. When bitcoin or crypto projects somehow will generate cashflow (dividends, sustainable business etc), then yes you can be maximalist. 

P.S. I love the idea and the movement, but I'm a realist.

For me it comes down to utility and what problems the currency is solving. Ie. a useable currency, private transactions or generating compensation for content etc. 

Bitcoin isn’t annonymous for example so that’s 1 reason why other cryptos might be needed and coupd succeed.

most altcoins paired with btc in trades. Make sense btc would be most valued. There has yet to be another crypto as highly paired trade than btc. To me it seems like altcoins were created to divide btc amount those who were late in amassing btc but are cryptographers and programmers. 

Some of their arguments make perfect sense and no doubt do not require much mental flexibility to agree with them. However, there are many things being said that boil down to basic tribalism and thus do not warrant much merit in my personal opinion.

As you've pointed out, the power that BTC has, the original, the decentralized ledger is obvious, and unless you are unwilling to accept truth, you have to accept that out of still <b>small percentage</b> of humans who know about cryptocurrencies, 99% if them know only about bitcoin. This might be the very reason why it is and probably will remain the king of crypto. In very much the same way that Coca Cola is not the best Cola, yet it's the king of it's own kingdom.

Tone Vays is in my opinion someone who's ideas have to be taken with a grain of salt. He, like many other maximalists have very ineffective arguments against the tokens they call scams, and sound the <b>"listen to the market"</b> drums while not having one ear available themselves.

Regardless of the <b>original white paper</b> the almost constitutional document that people seem to worship, there is one thing the maximalists do get right.

<h2>Bitcoin is a store of value, the new gold</h2>

It makes some people angry, it makes most people who hold on to the original idea with white knuckles furious. I mean, what happened to digital cash? - The answer to me is obvious, at least at this very moment. 

<b>The market is not ready!</b> - People don't really need Bitcoin to buy their coffee, they got a working debit/credit card for that, and it's more convenient, much more convenient.

So when the maximalists and the alt coiners discuss, they are coming from two different angles, meaning they see the proposition of cryptocurrencies like solutions to two different problems.

<h1>Maximalists</h1>
Know with conviction, that Bitcoin will replace gold, and that those that hold on to Bitcoin will be able to remove themselves from the market manipulations that Gold has been a victim of. In other words, with Bitcoin they win the battle in that front.

You could say that the same psychological profile who was accumulating gold prior to the creation of Bitcoin, is the one hording the intangible tokens right now.

<h1>Alt Coiners</h1>
Are arguing mostly for utility. They don't want gold, they recognize it already exists. On top of that, many alt coiners recognize Bitcoin as a store of value, so their positive sentiments for alt coins is not an invalidation of their appreciation of Bitcoin.

To an altcoiner, a new token can solve other issues. Content economy dynamics, Social Media, Medical Ledgers, and Contracts. 

All this to say... they are disagreeing while at the same time not talking about the same thing at all.

I think this happened because bitcoin was first of its kind and it's underlying technology is being bettered which in a way maximalists don't like. The whole thing is bitcoin is becoming weaker in our eyes with altcoin providing better blockchain and faster transactions. Ethereum cannot be called a scam because it ran a proper ICO and is functioning perfect right now because at the start even bitcoin looked like a scam but scam later turned to awesomeness after people started harnessing it's various benefits. I don't think there should be any bitcoin maximalist existing, if he does he isn't seeing the future of crypto but is just trying to blanket poor bitcoin from various powerful altcoin due to technological benefits.

Bitcoin was the first crypto currency created so I think maximalists like only Bitcoin and don't like the way other crypto are proving to be better. In a way I feel they are trying to incubate Bitcoin from defame and competition from other crypto

@knircky i think step by step you going on become bitcoin maximalist, by keep a good chance in this community

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I can't help you there. Although I think that Bitcoin has done a lot as the first mover in the space, I don't think it will be the crypto that is ultimately adopted as the primary mainstream crypto currency. The primary reason: it's too slow. Although it's possible to transfer large sums of money inexpensively, it takes too long to complete transactions. It's not feasible to use in everyday transactions for coffee, groceries, misc purchases. 

I think that Bitcoin is the social media equivalent of Myspace. Another challenger will come along and be the Facebook of crypto. Heck, it could be Facebook's crypto. Just kidding. :)

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It's just basic tribalism. They first pick a doctrine/ideology and try to make the facts fit the theory. Bitcoin Maximalist are the banker equivalent of crypto-sphere. What reasons do bankers bring up against cryptocurrency - you can find an equivalent among Bitcoin Maximalists against any crypto that is not named Bitcoin.

There is absolutely __zero__ technical achievements/moat that is exclusive to Bitcoin and most coins including Ethereum can do anything Bitcoin does better with more features.

To me Bitcoin Maximalists and Bankers are basically Republicans and Democrats. They are against each other. But a person with good sensibilities should avoid both of them.

Bitcoin Maximalists stick their heads in the sand when it comes to InstantSend that give roughly 1.3 second confirmations. hey refuse to accept on-chain governance. Any project that is linked to Bitcoin with the exception of Komodo is a failure while many projects on http://www.blocktivity.info are rocking it. The maximalists are also oblivious to the decentralization created by DPoS as opposed to few mining pools. PoW is nowhere as decentralized as DPoS: https://steemit.com/statistics/@vimukthi/forget-51-attacks-coingeek-now-control-67-hash-power-and-they-are-loosing-usd370-000-usd-per-day

### Three Things Makes A Bitcoin Maximalist
- Arrogance/Elitism
- Being oblivious to facts and tech development
- Tribalism

Don't bother with reasons. They will use any logic/excuse/theory to fit their delusional agenda.