Man's Entire Personality Now Based On Which Layer-1 Blockchain He Chose In 2020

A software developer's decision to invest in a specific Layer-1 blockchain protocol in 2020 has metastasized over four years into a comprehensive identity that now governs his social interactions, wardrobe choices, and Thanksgiving dinner conversations. Nathan Validator, 31, purchased $4,000 worth of Avalanche tokens in November 2020. By 2021, he had changed his Twitter bio to "AVAX maximalist." By 2022, he had purchased three Avalanche-branded t-shirts, a hat, and a laptop sticker. By 2023, he was unable to hold a conversation for longer than seven minutes without comparing Avalanche's transaction finality time to that of competing networks. "Last Thanksgiving he told my mother that her turkey was 'like Solana: looks good on the surface but falls apart under congestion,'" said Nathan's sister, who asked to be identified only as "exhausted." "She doesn't know what Solana is. She cried." Nathan's friends, several of whom have distanced themselves from social gatherings that include him, describe a gradual personality replacement that began with enthusiasm and progressed to what one friend called "a full-stack identity crisis." "He used to like fishing," said former close friend Marcus Relay. "Now he likes subnets. He used to talk about baseball. Now he talks about consensus mechanisms. I invited him to a barbecue and he showed up with a presentation on C-Chain gas optimization and asked if we had an HDMI cable." Nathan maintains that his behavior is "just passion" and that critics are "Ethereum maxis who can't handle sub-second finality." He has started a podcast about Avalanche that averages eleven listeners per episode, nine of whom he believes are bots. When asked what he would do if Avalanche ceased to exist, Nathan paused for nineteen seconds before saying "I don't understand the question."