I POSTED THIS ON REDDIT BUTTCOIN 2 MONTHS AGO. I used to be a Top Member there. Was friendly with the creator of it. Hadn't been on Reddit for over a year.
I just checked today and there are thousands of replies and thrashing (as expected) and I was given "Ponzi Schemer" flair and BANNED from r/Buttcoin lol 🤷🏿♂️ The post has also been removed, though I can see it in my personal history.
Here is the original post. It's super long, but it's my BTC supporter turned bitter hater turned eternal maxi journey. Many can relate.
ORIGINAL, UNEDITED POST ON r/BUTTCOIN:
A Confession That’ll Get Me Thrashed
I’ll start with the irony: I was planning to cross-post this in r/Bitcoin, but I can’t. I was banned ages ago because of my r/Buttcoin involvement. Fitting, right?
Here’s the backstory. I first dipped into Bitcoin back in 2015. Thought I was ahead of the curve. Then, like many newbies, I got scammed. More than once. Each time, it was my own greed that got me. Thinking I could shortcut my way to riches. Instead, I walked away convinced BTC was a cesspool of degenerates and fools.
So I became a hater. A loud one. For years, I roasted Bitcoiners, mocked their “number go up” obsession, and thought I was the sane adult in the room. I’d battle maxis until the bitter end, convinced they were cult members worshipping magic internet money.
But here’s the catch: hating something that much takes effort. I was burning hours of my life arguing online. One day, I told myself: uplift, shut up, or move on. That led me back down the rabbit hole, this time with 25+ years of finance study behind me. I was already crushing equities, real estate, and income. But when I applied the same rigor to "DISPROVING" Bitcoin, the thing I thought I hated started making sense.
And that’s when the joke turned on me. The more I studied to reject it, the more I became the very thing I mocked. Donnie Brasco went undercover and came out a mobster. I went in to wreck Bitcoiners and came out a maxi.
Now? I run my own node. I DCA hourly. I hodl more than a coin. I mine. But the biggest shift isn’t financial—it’s personal. Living on a Bitcoin standard rewires you. Every purchase becomes an opportunity-cost calculation.
Junk spending disappears. Health matters even more than before (why be financially wealthy if you can 't enjoy it due to physical illness?).
Discipline sharpens. You think long-term, delay gratification, and treat people more honestly because you see your labor as something worth preserving. Even if BTC vanished tomorrow, that mindset would stick. And that’s priceless.
Here’s the cult part. When you believe one coin could be worth $10 million someday, you live differently. You eat cleaner, exercise harder, and skip dumb flexes because you want to be alive and thriving when it matters.
You realize Lambos are weekend rentals for gold diggers, not wealth. True wealth hides itself. You stop chasing status toys and start chasing time. That’s how I ended up working fewer hours, earning more, and spending more time with my daughter.
The “future money” belief had already changed how I lived before the money even showed up.
So yes, it’s a cult. But not the kind outsiders imagine. It’s not about flexing or screaming “have fun staying poor.” That garbage kept me away for years. Real Bitcoiners don’t sell you. They live it. They understand it’s as much ethos as protocol.
And the irony? I’m still not anti-fiat. I hate the psychotic fiat games; however, fiat isn’t disappearing anytime soon.
Bitcoin isn’t either. They’ll merge, intertwine, and evolve together. USD stablecoins abroad, BTC as the bedrock. Aircraft carrier, not a rowboat. Sound money teaching discipline in a world addicted to debt.
So here I am: ex-hater, banned from r/Bitcoin, Buttcoin troll turned Bitcoin cult member. If my stack disappeared tomorrow, which I just made myself a target by even saying I have a stack (but Lord have mercy on anyone who would approach my real-life, non-online physical domain) I’d STILL call it a win because the perspective shift is permanent. Hate it or love it, BTC rewired my brain for the better.
I say again, if the stack is somehow GONE tomorrow. I'd be like "Dang, that sucks. Guess I'll have to do it again."
Because the ethos of sound money and good living are ingrained in the fabric of my very soul. It's not even that I can "duplicate" my success/results, it's that they are constant.
It's me now. Put me anywhere and the same thing will happen. Once you create your power and it's a part of you, it always ends up the same way.
This is the only sad thing about Bitcoin, for people who are into it the way I was in 2015, but NOT the way I'm into it in July 2025.
If most Bitcoiners behave or feel or live like I did in 2015—which isn't a bad way to live, just a *slightly* different mindset—[btw, AI loves using em dashes, but em dashes were my favorite writing tool from the day I learned to write, so rest assured this is me writing, not AI lol] then when Bitcoin does get mass adopted, I sort of fear it ends up in a more honest society, sure, but very similar distributions of wealth.
It's not a major fear, because even when Tradfi gets fully involved, the BTC ethos make it very difficult to run evil fiat games long term, but in the short term, many well meaning fools will part ways with their BTC for fiat dreams and live to regret it.
Anyway, it will all work out because it always does. I'm not ashamed that I was part of this here Buttcoin community, because in a very crazy way, I feel like Saul in the Bible (whether you believe in it or not, the story itself does exist at face value as a story) who wasn't just a non-Christian, he was a Pharisee who actively persecuted Christians as his mission.
In Buttcoin, this was my mission. Revenge for losing thousands and thousands of dollars. Vitriol.
But, like Saul, I have become "Paul", who somehow converted and became a KEY figure in spreading Christianity to Gentiles.
So it's actually BETTER that I was such a hater because I scrutinized every single angle. I wasn't some dumbass calling people names, I was doing insane amounts of research on things and the good news is that this level of research seems to always lead any reasonable person not just to BTC but to BTC-Maxi land. Node running, mining, politely evangelizing, etc etc etc.
So, thank you Buttcoin. Based on the community rules, I'm more than certain I'm in violation of Rule #2 and many more, so I'm going to guess this is the last time I'll be allowed here. Which will complete the COI (Circle of Irony).
Because, as mentioned, I'm banned from r/Bitcoin and now will likely be banned from r/Buttcoin. These are the only two reasons I use Reddit, so God is good, the Universe delivers because Reddit is one of the worst places in existence.
Deuces. Stay hard, stack sats. 💫
The end.