The early #monero folks did not mock bitcoinners. They did not see monero as a replacement for #Bitcoin but as a compliment. Two different projects with different tradeoffs.
The sort of mockery and meming seen today arose during the blocksize wars. And was very similar to the kinds of insults and ideas being pushed by the bcash, (#BCH) camp. For example the fixation on the tagline of the white paper "peer to peer electronic cash" and the frequent taunt that bitcoin has failed at that. A point I see as currently true but shortsighted.
Roger Ver, in fact was (is?) a monero proponent.
Human beings tend to polarize and divide into camps. Cest la vie, I guess.
Bitcoin and monero are both extremely important ideas for the future of ALL of us. They both have tradeoffs.
We will learn to master these tradeoffs or we will die while mocking the "other side".
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