Michael Saylor: The Bitcoin community is splitting into four major schools of thought, and any one of them going to extremes would be harmful.
TechFlame
2026-06-05 11:20
TechFlame2026-06-05 11:20
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TechFlame News: Michael Saylor, founder and executive chairman of Bitcoin treasury company Strategy, published an article on X platform stating that the Bitcoin ecosystem is gradually diverging into four core philosophies: Bitcoin Maximalists, Bitcoin Capitalists, Bitcoin Technologists, and Bitcoin Fundamentalists.
Among them, Maximalists emphasize Bitcoin as the globally dominant digital currency network; Capitalists advocate for deep integration of Bitcoin into banking, corporate, and capital markets; Technologists support cautious protocol upgrades to enhance scalability, security, and functionality; while Fundamentalists focus on self-custody, node operation, decentralization, and the immutability of the protocol.
Saylor believes that these four philosophies correspond to four forces: "faith, adoption, innovation, and preservation." The future of Bitcoin should not involve choosing between purity and adoption, or between innovation and stability. Instead, balance should be achieved through "disciplined expansion": maintaining the stability and decentralization of the base layer protocol, while channeling most innovation into second-layer networks, custody, credit, and capital market infrastructure.