The practice of calling anything other than Bitcoin a scam (or, cleverly, tcoin) is sometimes called “toxic maximalism.” Protecting the network from detractors and attacking “copycats” online his Bitcoiner is what former MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor called a “cybernetic immune system.” Historically, maximalism is not uncommon in the tech industry. However, people who openly criticize cars, planes, phones, the Internet, etc. are often perplexed.
