Sure, but it is kind of strange how they all seem to support the same project. So whatever technological merits monero might have, they are (to my mind at least) cancelled out by the fact that the project seems to attract sociopaths in great numbers
You're not the only one who's noticed that.
The subtle common factor amongst many of them - either implicitly or explicitly - is a mindset that believes in the supremacy of technology over the human.
Here's a backgrounder, straight from one of its own staff members:
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/971275.0Why do you think they bang on about 'math' so much and dismiss the need for public accountability in blockchains. Worship of academic prowess over practical endeavour. Immunity to humour etc. It's a (
cult) mindset and it has infected this whole sector of bitcointalk. (It's also, by the way, what informs and fuels their hatred of the 'instamine' because that was a human failing - a kind of intolerable breach of a sacred technological 'rule').
Nowhere amongst all the technological sabre rattling is there ever any sober analysis of money a' la Antonopolis. i.e. as a sociological phenomenon. They think this is nothing more than a race for technological supremacy. In fact money is historically a low tech, sociological, messy, complex concept as I've been trying to express over a few hundred thread pages. Expecting acknowledgement of that fact from the 'techno-cult', though would be like asking Count Dracula to dine on a meal of baked garlic and shallots with
aioli served up on a platter blessed by the Holy Father himself.
As I say, I'm not accusing everyone of being consciously signed up 'cult' members, but the ones that aren't who we regularly run into sure are unconscious subscribers to that mindset as illustrated by deranged posts
such as this.
Funnily, in an interesting bit of "rabbit hole" trivia, there is a sci-fi culture/genre known as "
Cyberpunk" which is loosely associated with transhumanism by many. One term originating in this genre (created by William Gibson in the Novel '
Neuromancer') to do with protecting networks from unsolicited access is "
Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics" (ICE).
In
Neuromancer, a piece of software designed to break through such ICE's is known as, (surprise) an
ICEbreaker.
In fact, not unlike the role performed by this piece of significant commercial software....
As it happens, the company that built and marketed that software was started by a certain personality, well known on BCT who would later go on to do even "greater" things at a company called "Hashfast".
Just a co-incidence, of course.
