Don't you think some people in the forum are giving too much importance to Elon?

[TopTort777]

Elanomania. Now users create identical topics to complain how bad Elon Musk was. Previously there topics how cool Musk is and how he pumps dogecoin. But before that there were "Musk/Bitcoin" from every corner of the forum.

Too much attention to his persona. Lets make another forum rank as "Musk" for having most activity/merit. Or start new avatar movement, like we had with baseball hats.

I'd love to have a -Elon -Musk -Tesla filter on Bitcointalk, so I wouldn't even see this topic and wouldn't have posted here.

There is an extension to Chrome called Ncago, it replaces all picture on the page with random Nicolas Cage pictures. I think something similar can be created with forum scripts to replace Elon Musk with something funny.

[mprep]

I'd love to have a -Elon -Musk -Tesla filter on Bitcointalk, so I wouldn't even see this topic and wouldn't have posted here

You're not the only one (see https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5338075.0). And while AFAIK there ain't word filters filters on Bitcointalk, here's something I whipped up: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5338075.msg57031368#msg57031368 (you'll need a userscript extension like Tampermonkey to install it though).

[LoyceV]

Lets face it; he has influence and until the cryptoverse learns to ignore him, that's not going away.

It reminds me of the ch-troll on Bitcointalk: by the time some users have put him on ignore, other users join the conversatino and try to talk sense into them. By the time they give up, there's someone else again.
Twitter users aren't known for their independent thinking There are just too many of them to stop feeding trolls.

[actmyname]

Twitter users aren't known for their independent thinking There are just too many of them to stop feeding trolls.

And don't forget - ^{oh n_o !} - that every day, more people are born to become future troll caretakers! The cycle never ends: such is the fate of prey, for humans are merely the vessels of attention to be feasted upon by the trolls.

[Delightcrypto1]

Elon musk is all over the internet due to his latest dump of bitcoin as a fact that tesla will not longer accept bitcoin as medium of payment and due to his calculative statistical method of dumping one cryptocurrency to another. I think this whole trending of him in almost all the topic will soon fade out believing bitcoin and other cryptocurrency price will attain their standardization again and even more.

[stompix]

Really, the "current" "crypto community" is nothing more than a bunch of braindead losers thinking that they can somehow get rich quick. I'm not sure if this has always been that way (certainly the 2017 bull run was that too), but this makes crypto even more sad that fiat, IMO. Sure, there are a couple smart developers here and there, but the average crypto user does not use crypto for it's inherent properties ("speed", "privacy"), but is merely a degenerate gambler coping with their poor financial situation.

Well, we went mainstream!
And when you go mainstream, you start encountering all kinds of people, and it's highly likely that most of the newcomers would not be the same as the previous community, from ideals to ideas, from motives to actions.

Maybe we have grown into the meme "I was <> before it was cool" way too fast or we're simply demoralized as we see unwanted changes are around us, but the way things are, it's going to get worse before it gets better. Maybe this move from Saint Elon was a warning, forget about 51% attacks, how about a 55 million Twitter followers attack, after all, Bitcoin is based on trust, when that fades so does the coin. How long and how high can we go with only the trust of those we share our own vision and not with this mainstream everyone was waiting for?

Wonder how this will end but I'm starting to think that the people who have done well for themselves in the fiat world will do so in crypto, the ones that got screwed in that system will pay twice the price here, it's not about changing systems or masters, it's about who we have for dinner!

Just like those kids on Reddit thinking that by giving Wall Street their money (buying GME stock or some shit like that) they're rebelling against the system. SMH.

I wonder how much we've killed the banks with billions in wire transfers to and from exchanges. 

[mediaBuzz]

Because people are dumb. Not only this forum folks but everyone who deals with crypto. Some say now it's not Elon himself posting these tweets, some third parties are controlling his Twitter account.

Latest "call" was 4 days ago if I'm not wrong. Starbase logo was tweeted and the Starbase token skyrocketed after 10 minutes.



This keeps happening despite the big hate he received after dumping tesla bitcoins. One thing is for sure, this guy isn't a simple businessman or an engineer like Steve Jobs or Bill, he has different motives.

[UserU]

The simple answer to this is that people need to write about the reason why bitcoin is dumping and majority of us thinks it is because of Elon Musk. That's the main reason why we see a lot of Elon Musk and Tesla posts everywhere in the forum. What i don't like is about the repetitions of the same topics but with different words.

Alot of them especially newbies tend to follow influencers/ politicians for easy buck and then put the blame on them when things go south.

So to those saying that crypto prices are not easily influenced/ swayed are dead wrong.

[Mpamaegbu]

To be frank, it's not even what we do here that pushes Elon Musk's influence or feeds his perceived trolling behaviour. It goes beyond this forum. There are much more many people who aren't on this forum (who may not even have heard about this forum) that trust and take everything Elon says hook, line and sinker. Of course, everyone likes to listen to someone of influence. Elon is a man of influence, whether we admit it or not. To be the wealthiest man on the globe is not an easy achievement in a world where riches is more valuable than good name. In the current day happenings, not many will want to listen to a Bill Gates over an Elon Musk. Power has changed hands and quite understandably, people will want to queue behind he who has the magic wand. So, I don't think it's out of place talking about Elon. It's his time. Let him enjoy the moment.

[mediaBuzz]

The simple answer to this is that people need to write about the reason why bitcoin is dumping and majority of us thinks it is because of Elon Musk. That's the main reason why we see a lot of Elon Musk and Tesla posts everywhere in the forum. What i don't like is about the repetitions of the same topics but with different words.

Alot of them especially newbies tend to follow influencers/ politicians for easy buck and then put the blame on them when things go south.

So to those saying that crypto prices are not easily influenced/ swayed are dead wrong.

The crowd doesn't tend to follow influencers but follows the hype. It's not about Elon now. It's about the hype that his tweet causes. One thinks everyone is crazy to buy everything Elon seems to be promoting and tries to make a quick buck on these people's insanity not realizing he is being one of them. At the end of the day, Elon is playing with fire.