Most people just feel being right means being in a group of people that think the same. Most of the lowest IQ people I know do that. I was seriously thinking about why. The only answer is survival. When people are too dumb to think by themselves and find the correct solutions, they follow others. If...

even praised by some Bitcoiners

Partially, perhaps. I also see it as a form of a ritual of submission in that societal hierarchy. In the end it won't matter if it's due to devotion or fear, the (hypothetical) person is feeding that narrative.

We cannot grasp how evil evil people are, or how many of them there are.