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I love the so-far-above-average intelligence of this entire community.

I love the fresh ideas which come from the incredibly creative people in this community.

I love how passionate you guys are about getting your ideas out to the community, and I love that so many admit when they're wrong. I love how open-minded this community is.

I love that (with one exception in my first BTC trade) every transaction I've made has been with honest, passionate people, dedicated to maintaining their integrity and the value of Bitcoin.

I love the sense of adventure I get every time I use a new service from a new person with new passions and ideas being implemented for the first time. I love the extremes of experimentation which go on here.

I love your dedication to free markets, perhaps more than anything else, because it encapsulates so many beliefs most passion of my character is dedicated to.

I love the dedication to open source code, friendly personal business atmosphere, donation-based services, and a free Internet.

I love the widespread resistance to government taxation and regulation, and I love the subtle, ultra-effective manner of doing it. I love that Bitcoin leads by example and Bitcoin users live by example.

I love that Bitcoin and its community has proved to the world that there is a demand for free markets, that the market self-regulates very well, and that those who profit (usually) do so to the benefit of everyone they do business with.

Thank you Bitcoin community, for turning me back into the optimist I haven't been since I was a young kid. Every single ideal I love is loved by so many Bitcoin users and developers that I really feel more at home than ever before in my life. I love hanging out in the BTC-OTC IRC channel - I love talking to my friends, wife, family, and just random people on the Internet about Bitcoin, and I love all the knowledge I'm getting from remarkably insightful and intelligent human beings. I really can't thank you all enough for the quality of life increase I've received.

+1

I'd say my IQ has jumped at least 10 points for having learned about and joined the bitcoin community.

Oh - and I love that I've discovered an excellent new income at the time we're renovating the house for sale and have a 2-month-old daughter -- our first.  ;D

I believe we are part of something special. There are a lot of people sleep to this phenomenon. I'm shocked and appalled ;-)

I love you loving us all  :D

Congratulations Vladimir. I wish you and your family much peace, happiness and prosperity!

And to all the bitcoin users the same!

Cheers!

Right back at you, Klunge my brother  ;)

it's a fine group of pirates... i'm happy to be a part of it.

are you female?

All signs point to "no".

I love all of you, except for some of you.

I couldn't be female and have a wife where I live. Though... we refuse to get a "marriage license" from the gov't so legally, she isn't my wife... Common Law marriage has been phased out here, too.

At any rate, I'll leave whether or not I'm female up to your imagination.

Is that your idea of foreplay  ???

Usually it's blowing raspberries on her butthole, saying "let's do it," groping her breast, and then dry-humping her while she scowls at me, saying something along the lines of "lemme fuck yuh booty!"

For some reason, my love life has been slowing down significantly. Must be from her recently giving birth, or maybe she's menstruating again. ... I wouldn't know...  :(


...  :P  ;)

Bitcoin is arousing imo.

Yes, this place/project is special.

I also agree.

It's a dream, but it seems like a dream that can come true.  

"Haha, electronic coins?  Those will never catch on."

"$7?  Haha, it's just a bubble, it'll collapse in a week and they will be worthless."

"$15?  It's just a final burst until they drop to 0, anyway if they get too valuable the government will just shut them down, haha."

Yet we all stick with it.  I don't really want a world where a free currency such as this can't work.  So, I've decided to give it my all and put whatever I can into BTC.  As a non-programmer I can't help as much as some, but through promotion and mining hardware investments I am doing what I can.

full ack, how bright i see the future. Bitcoin will rise over the moneylords.

This certainly is the finest community I've ever been a part of. Even if Bitcoin ends up being a total failure, it will have been a pleasure to experience this.

Thanks, I love you too and most others in this community.

See http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=11814.0 (near the bottom)

I hate being the stupidest one in this community.


"Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind."

Please see this (http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=12109.0) for ego boost.

<3 <3 <3
thanks for going out on a limb and posting this thread

Couldn't agree more - it's really refreshing to see such positive threads!
I am glad to be here and wish you all the best!

True, very true... You don't feel very intelligent on this forum (so many geniuses within our ranks).... until you read the "oh noes deflation!" threads.

Whew ... that last rally must have taken the edge off.

Was it gin or the special little blue pills, I think i'm tearing up here :'( ... what the hell is up with this group hug thing?

i think he asked cause he thought its a pretty gay post? :P

on a serious note i totally agree..you guys have been weirdly helpful..

I like this thread - especially the "Internet High-Five" really rocked ;-)

And I don't really see why "I love you all" sounds kind of gay. It's just an expression of great appreciation ... the group hug does look a bit odd to me, though ;-)

You mean the rest of you guys don't look like that?

Lots of love for community from me also.
Down with the money masters!

Gotta love the quotability potential around here, for sure.

Bump for video of Chuck Schumer surfing Silk Road sounding astounded that his authority is being challenged.

hXXp://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Schumer-Calls-on-Feds-to-Shut-Down-Online-Drug-Marketplace-123187958.html

I've grown accustomed to the jet engine level loudness of multiple gpu fans while I'm trying to sleep. I think I sleep better now with gpus near me at full blast, actually.

I love you too man  :'( :'( :'(


And if Bitcoin turns out to be a failure, I'm sure many of us will be on the frontlines of Bitcoin 2.0.  

I am proud to be apart of this historic movement.  Bitcoin's political implication, the promotion of liberty, is a worthy cause.  Even if legal troubles, prison, or even death come my support of this project helps support liberty for every nation.  I am helping to secure a future where liberty is exulted over the tyranny of arbitrary governmental action, of which money is a root facilitator.  I can think of no greater way to help the cause of liberty.  I hope I will be telling stories to my grandchildren of my participation in the cryptocurrency revolution.  


You guys are that buff while doing bitcoin?  What's your secret workout?  Benching Miners?

Long live all the youngsters (not gangsters or banksters) here, daughters and sons!  :)

I love that the new wealthy elite is going to be all of you.

The world is certainly going to be a much better place once Bitcoin seriously competes against our current financial system of wealthy elites.

"All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing."

I thank you all for doing something, and I love you all just as well!

:D

My sentiments exactly.  Some truly smart and helpful people here who fully deserve their windfall, and also some great humourous posts especially helpful in riding out the darker moments during 2011 and 2012.

As we have seen the United States fiat currency system drastically devalued over the past several decades, and as the Euro sits in perilous balance, the age of "The People's Currency" is upon us. Cryptocurrency represents the single greatest financial innovation of our lifetimes. Imagine what it would have been like, watching front-row just as we are now, when rudimentary forms of currency were first utilized in the ancient civilizations, greatly enhancing and fostering early forms of commerce! I submit that truly decentralized currency is an even greater revolution than any seen before.

The world has dramatically changed in response to seismic forces of exchange and commerce only a few times in recorded history. For over two thousand years, government-controlled exchange systems have ruled mercilessly over the people of the world. Centuries of blood shed, rooted in financial power jostling, have undermined peace and growth as centrally consumed resources became abused. The gold standard constantly manipulated, largely to the advantage of just a few major entities. Value theft, through inflationary spending, constantly undermining the productivity and laminar creation of wealth and goods.

We will look back on this time as the beginning of a new era in commerce, but more importantly power structure. Bitcoins are going to change things forever. We must be diligent in protecting this great system of fairness which has been so carefully crafted for our benefit. We must continue to innovate the platform to the advantage of all people, not just those that own this great pseudo-commodity, but future generations waiting to inherit the momentum it could bring and greater stability of world market forces. As it propagates, common asset values will be far too difficult to erode via centralized powers. Vast currency exchange cost and it's natural crippling effect on international trade will begin to vanish. Borders will open economically and arguably philosophically. Citizens of less fortunate nations will find level playing ground, some for the first time in recorded history.

Soak it in and enjoy the momentum, because this is just the beginning! Few people on this earth have any idea what is about to awaken them, and Bitcoin has gone viral if you haven't already noticed. We now live in the age of constructive e-viral revolution, where nations can be taken down by social networks and long held kingdoms of wealth and influence are powerless to stop this astonishing trend.  We are witnessing a great crumbling of "brick-and-mortar" in the face of what are simply beautiful ideas taking root, one person at a time. The lords and barons of the old guard will be forced to yield control to the populace, as it always should have been.

Rake them in while you can miners. Someday it will be said how easily the Bitcoins flowed in the beginning. This cryptocurrency gold rush is in it's prime and the day will come where owning even fractions of a Bitcoin will feed a man for a year. There will come a day when, of the billions of souls on the planet, every single mind possessed with thought will crave to have one, but with only 21 million to go around.

Everyone will want to partake of that sense of liberation you and I have already felt when we first obtained our own. It's contagious, and we are watching it live, spreading among our various acquaintances, and we will continue to watch it as it fills society with increasing satisfaction, that they no longer must render to Caesar.

Let those who clearly see this true potential before us, continually guard it and nurture it forward. My fulminant thanks to Satoshi and our well qualified crew of core developers for bringing us into the advanced age of cryptocurrencies. Truly inspiring.

Long live the People's Currency.

Excellent post.

We are all at the beginning of the new economy of the new world of liberty

+1 :)

I don't believe we've ever spoken, OP, but you seem like just the type of guy I get along with.  My sentiments exactly, there has never been a community of such like-minded high-thinking individuals like that found here.

Almost sounds like I'm gloating ;D

Its for sure it would have taken me a lot longer to learn the bankers tactics (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMiN_i-uzpA&t=11m28s), the true value of money and so on and so forth, thanks to this thing called bitcoin.


Thanks Satoshi.

Sure will. USD will be worthless soon after the next time you remember to bump this.

.... Jesus. I forgot how many alcoholics used to be around the forum waaaay back in 2011. Little-known fact for the youngsters: Satoshi wrote the whitepapers through 10 1.5L bottles of MD 20/20 donated by a small collective of crypto-geeks and a batshit-insane zen buddhist. I hear he liked "orange" flavor best.

After persistently reading the forums, the insight provided by this community is blindingly addictive when placed in stark contrast to the insight of mainstream news reports.  Bitcoin doesn't attract drug dealers, it attracts the intelligent and socially motivated. We invest in Bitcoin, not just bitcoins.

you talk of the presstitutes there ?

Like that, right there!  Where dat word come from?  I just learned a new word! How cool is that!? :o

I think I like Banana Red the best myself.  But they are all good.

Epic post, thank you.

"I love you all" ... as in ... "unconditional love" ?

Freedom is popular guys.

Nice to be with you all :D

Well said Kludge.

And I remember you from the first forum we met and I can corroborate the change in attitude you talk about. Bitcoin is contagious, when I make a payment with bitcoins it just feels right.

I was just about to start a "I love you all" thread myself, and here it is, already existing.  I'll have to go back and reread the thread after I post this, but I want to use my own words to express myself.

I love you all. This community is what made bitcoin into what it is.  Your all smart as fuck, open minded and funny.  Generous and thoughtful.  I keep buying all the way up (foolishly, perhaps) because of the confidence I hold this group in.  Decentralized trust is a powerful force we are unleashing upon the world.  I can't wait to meet many of you in 40 days in San Jose.  The party is going to be wild.

Smart, courageous, revolutionary free-thinkers.  I love you all.

Just remember Kluge, nothing is written in stone. Just wait until the next Patrick, Matthew, Pirate, Clipse, Goat or Atlas piss you off and then see how deep your love is.

Thanks for the HI5

Alright. I got you. I love you all*.

OP was made back when Atlas (or Andrew Ryan or whoever he was being at the time) amused me. MNW's actually done an incredible amount of good lately.

(You forgot dank. I hate dank.)

Love you all, too.
Very insightful post saying that even if bitcoin fails and/or all economic value is lost, it will have been great to have spent some time here. Puts things in the right order in my opinion.
First time I receive a virtual hi5 too, thx for that :) (hmm, that hi5 wasn't really virtual. It was just remote after all, not virtual).

I share the love and your comments about these issues. Great post. Cheers!

I remember the OP and LOL'ed when I saw this revived!
These were the halcyon days before the original hack.
Still see some of the same folk here, hell of ride the last few years.

FF

I like BTC more than jews love money   ;D