Lopp was also there, and he also says this was the real history openly:

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For the first ~7ish years of Bitcoin, the prevailing narrative for why altcoins were doomed was that they were test networks. The idea being that B...

You can also find a ton of statements to this effect on OG Bitcoin-talk threads if you want to waste time searching. But I think from here this discussion is obviously over, because this “Luke” person was clearly either not there or is intentionally deceptive. He’s either a fucking idiot running his mouth or a liar, and I don’t have time to entertain either.

Then I'm guessing you were there to shitcoin. All the bitcoin maximalists I followed in those days would have argued against this narrative, excepting, of course, Roger Ver & Erik Voorheez, who later went on to shitcoin themselves.

Lol. Back in the day there were no shitcoins. The first major shitcoin was Ripple and everybody in the space agreed on it. Nobody would have dared to call Litecoin, or Peercoin or Namecoin a shitcoin. Maybe Feather as the only project that tried to build in demurrage.