[DennisP]

I also remember the early Bitcoin days. I didn't get any until over $100 but I came across it before it was worth anything. I remember the faucets, the alpaca socks, the triumphant day when a bitcoin reached parity with a dollar, all of it. It was a glorious, happy community of idealists back then.

Those days are gone for Bitcoin, but I've found a cryptocurrency community elsewhere that reminds me of those early Bitcoin days. I jumped in full-time and I'm having a blast.

[pera]

Which community?

[DennisP]

Ethereum. Admittedly there's a dark side of scammy ICOs, but there's also lots of open source coding and idealists trying to change the world.

I don't think Ethereum is the only cryptocurrency community like this, it's just the one I'm involved in.

[patrickk]

One of the best things about Ethereum is how Vitalik focuses mostly on important technical solutions to difficult problems, notably scaling the network to millions/billions of tx/s - crucial to Ethereum's future success. He rises above the noise, it's really impressive given his young age.

https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/931323377008046080

[dingo_bat]

> idealists

> hard fork because people didn't want to honor smart contract

Does not compute.

[emsimot]

Just because some people have different ideals to yourself doesn't make them any less idealistic.

[dingo_bat]

Honoring a contract you got into is not idealistic?

[detailyang]

Ethereum community is so cool, I envy you can join it with full time:)

[DennisP]

What's stopping you?

[zenlikethat]

I’m not OP, but I like Monero. However any question like this is likely to get brigaded with everyone’s favorite bag to hold^W^W^W currency.

[DennisP]

Monero's cool too. Probably most projects that are reasonably young and successful, and have something new and different about them.