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Poll Results 2018

Bitcoin Wednesday Polling Station

The audience of Bitcoin Wednesday is polled regularly to help set priorities that can benefit the sector.  During Bitcoin Wednesday on 3 October, 2018, we polled the audience of about 150 people on the topic of Bitcoin maximalism with the following 4 questions:

  • How many people in the audience have no cryptocurrency?  Less than 10 people raised their hands.
  • How many people have only alt-coins and no bitcoins? About 3 people raised their hands.
  • How many people have have only bitcoins and no alt-coins? About 14 people raised their hands.
  • How many people have both bitcoins and alt-coins? The rest of the audience, more than 80% of the total, raised their hands.

Alt-coins are considered to be any cryptocurrency other than Bitcoin.

These results are somewhat surprising considering:

  • The sheer amount of attention and discussion that the Bitcoin maximalist position has generated recently;
  • Current market conditions with Bitcoin at nearly 54% of the cryptocurrency market cap; and
  • Bitcoin was very well-represented on that evening’s programming, and only one presentation covered alt-coins and ICOs.

The philosophy of Bitcoin maximalism was defined by Ethereum Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin as “The idea that an environment of multiple competing cryptocurrencies is undesirable… that building something on Bitcoin is the only correct way to do things and that doing anything else is unethical.”  Apparently an overwhelming majority of our audience disagrees with the maximalist’s standpoint.  Their cryptocurrency holdings also stand in stark contrast to the presentation given later that evening by one of the most outspoken Bitcoin maximalists, Tone Vays.  In his view, all alt-coins are scams.

Bitcoin Wednesday offers its independent platform to all points of view, and its programming is not curated.  If anyone believes a particular perspective has not been adequately represented, they are invited to volunteer suggestions or even to get involved in the programming.  If you have any thoughts or comments about the poll or what it implies about Bitcoin maximalism, you are welcome to leave them in the comments below.

 

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