These days I empathize with Bitcoin maximalists, there's a certain purity to the whole thing, it's just that the aesthetics of Bitcoin maximalism are bad

Have you talked to one? They simply want to become filthy rich and will cram any world event into their narrow framework as wish fulfillment. 

I love Bitcoin itself, but the maximalists are what limit my optimism (“Surely, these people will not be allowed to become a ruling class.”)

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I see. Do you think that the things you’re grouping into “aesthetics” (ie how the adherents actually live) is accidental to the philosophy or naturally caused by it?

I bucket that under aesthetics probably, I moreso just mean the philosophical/ideological position of only being interested in Bitcoin