# Why do BTC Maxis hate everything else?

By [Kieran](https://paragraph.com/@kieran-2) · 2022-05-16

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> [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1790.msg28917#msg28917](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1790.msg28917#msg28917)

Satoshi Nakamoto was open to the idea of other coins.

> Hal Finney: Satoshi, are you endorsing the idea that additional block chains would each create their own flavor of coins, which would trade with bitcoins on exchanges? These chain-specific coins would be used to reward miners on those chains, and to purchase some kinds of rights or privileges within the domain of that chain?
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> Satoshi: Right, the exchange rate between domains and bitcoins would float.

Why do BTC maxis defend Bitcoin with a religious fervor that the founder didn’t seem to have?

Why are they closed off to the notion that other ideas or experiments with blockchains can have merit?

Immutabiltiy = good

Programmability also = good

Interesting

To be continued…

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*Originally published on [Kieran](https://paragraph.com/@kieran-2/why-do-btc-maxis-hate-everything-else)*