Thread by @primalpoly

I have a few things to say to @elonmusk about crypto.

If enough of you agree & retweet this thread, maybe he’ll read it.

Maybe he’ll figure out how to undo some of the damage he’s done to the crypto industry, & to redeem his reputation among customers, investors, & fans.

Until a few months ago, millions of smart nerdy guys all around the world (including me) looked up to Elon as a tech genius, alpha chad billionaire, personal role model, multi-planetary visionary, and potential savior from some existential risks to our species.

Our Iron Man.

Many of these smart nerdy guys were excited about buying a @Tesla, using @neuralink, flying on @SpaceX,
& supporting @OpenAI to reduce the risks from machine intelligence.

Many of us are also heavily invested in crypto – professionally, socially, politically, or financially.

So, @elonmusk, we were dismayed by your tweets that have treated the crypto industry as an online amusement park of edgy memes, cute dogs, & cumrockets.

A surreal wonderland of magical internet money where you could play the Loki-like trickster & the wizard behind the curtain.

Maybe the crypto tweets were a validation of your global influence.

Maybe they were a refreshing distraction from the hard work of running big companies.

Maybe they were just harmless, eccentric fun.

But what seems like harmless, eccentric fun to smart nerdy guys can come across as heartless, witless, & reckless to others.

If you’re just playing pranks in high school, a few students might get upset. If you have 57 million followers, the risks of eccentric fun are amplified.

Your crypto tweets cost millions of people billions of dollars, and many of them will never forgive you.

You already know this.

Your got some vicious flak over your tweets, especially from the Bitcoin Maximalists. They range from optimistic libertarians to ornery fiat skeptics to sociopathic trolls. They can be smug, self-righteous, intolerant, nasty, & spiteful.

I understand why you might be pissed off at the Bitcoin Maximalists.

But they are a minority of the crypto community. They don’t speak for all of us. In fact, they’re embarrassing to many of us.

We’re well aware of Bitcoin’s pros and cons – its glorious potential, & its daunting risks, costs, and challenges.

That’s why most of us are also invested in other tokens, projects, & communities.

There’s a whole spectrum of awesome crypto projects smaller in market cap than Bitcoin, but more reputable than DogeCoin or Cumrocket.

Thousands of entrepreneurs, engineers, & community members support these projects. It's not just an investment. It's a calling. A life.

IMHO, you could undo a lot of the damage you’ve done if you just spent a few minutes writing a clear, sober, honest, unironic twitter thread about what you actually think about the crypto industry’s strengths & weaknesses.

Don’t tell us which meme coins you’re shilling for the lulz.

Tell us which projects, communities, use cases, tokenomics, & consensus mechanisms you think have potential. Which technical, economic, & regulatory problems do we need to overcome? Which human problems can we solve?

Tell us what kinds of crypto platforms you think could help billions of people around the world who are excluded, oppressed, or immiserated by the legacy finance system of fiat, inflation, & debt?

What kinds of blockchains might be used in Mars colonies in a few decades?

If you don’t know enough yet to comment on all of these issues, no problem.

Just say so, and promise us you’ll find out more.

Talk with our crypto leaders.

They’ll probably take your phone calls.

Thanks for reading.