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It's inherently classist. Only those with access to moderately high levels of technology can spend or receive it. Only those with access to exceedingly high levels of technology can "mine" it. Heterosexual, middle class or higher white males are disproportionally represented in the demographics of bitcoin users. Bitcoin only serves to uphold the current kyriarchal socioeconomic structures by making sure the privileged become more privileged.

And it's a terrible idea. You spend more on your parents' electricity bill and replacing burnt out GPUs that your parents buy for christmas and birthdays than you actually theoretically make.

Bitcoins are basically just this weird attempt by lolbertarian children to make their own currency and play stock market and dodge taxes.

Unless you made this thread on some kind of non smart phone, I really think you have the capability of sending or receiving bitcoins. I might be wrong, but I don't think so.

Yes, because China, who is currently moving most of the money, are all middle class or higher white males and fit your general stereotype perfectly  ::)
This comment doesn't even deserve a proper response.

I really truly deeply believe that you live in the stone age in every way possible!!

Sorry to break it to you, but the whole world is classist.
You will always be classified by attributes, e.g. how smart you are, how good you look, how good you play piano...and so on.
You could also say football is inherently classist or learning English or finding someone to marry.

At least Bitcoin won't deny anyone to use it, it doesn't care who you are.

The entirity of your posting history is:
Why I'm boycotting bitcoins.
You know what I find the most disturbing about the bitcoin community?
Bitcoin is fundementally flawed, here's why and how it can be fixed

So why did you register?  Why are you here?  And since you already find the community disturbing, and believe Bitcoin is flawed then you don't need to Boycott bitcoin obviously it is going to fail anyways. 

White people are 8% of the world population. White males are about half of that. So either prove less than 4% of bitcoin users are white males or admit you're full of BS.

Your troll : 2/10

Unlike the Internet, which started as a wide-spread trend in Africa.

It's fine, unlike the legacy monetary system, you don't have to use it if you don't want to.  

What is your point? There's absolutely nothing stopping any other races from getting involved in bitcoin.

You sound like the guy always looking to blame someone else. Look! Bitcoin is owned by white people. Rich whitey always keeping us down!

http://kipochi.com/blog/kipochi-launches-first-bitcoin-wallet-in-africa-with-m-pesa-integration


Mining is a 0 sum game, like every Marked that has no entry Barriers the provit that is makeable is minimal. This was different for a very short time due to new technologies, but nobody is getting rich from mining.


Oh you actually came across the point that mining isn't worth it yourself!

Guess what it isn't about mining. Mining is just the security mechanism. It's about a free currency that doesn't cut out anyone, serves as storage of Value and is freely transact-able. That some guys make money is this process is just a side effect.

Bitcoins makes sure the rich get richer and the poor stays poor. It's deflationary and rewards hoarders. Those who can afford to hoard them get richer and the poor stays poor.

Sounds like you are the perfect candidate for the ObamaCoin  ::)


All you have to do is sit on you rear all day and collect CoinStamps so you can redeem them for ObamaCoins.

If you are a minority you get additional ObamaCoins!

Good luck!  ;D

Cry more. There's plenty of opportunity for poor people to make it in the world today. Bitcoin is no different from any other form of wealth.

Absurd.

Poor people in africa with smart phones are already conducting electronic transfer of funds to eachother, either with bitcoin or local currencies just like it.

Do some research.

Bitcoin is the Great Equalizer.

The very opposite of what you have presented.   The 6.5 billion other people with no access to bank accounts will, for the first time, be able to hold and transfer money.

I still fail to see your argument. Bitcoin is so far deflationary, so rich or poor everyone who bought in makes money. No bias, equal percentages across the board.

Now with the US dollar you can buy and manipulate the system if you have lots of money so inflation does not bother you. The poor people don't have this advantage, so in reality you should be more pissed about fiat USD being unfair to the poor.

Or you could quit complaining about being poor and do something about it, takes work though.

I can't disagree with you on that, but it was fiat that got us in this situation. Bitcoin may or may not improve the situation.

#Socialist

Why is it that the commies/socialists try to ruin everything good?

That's racist. The Chinese could be white, middle class males if they wanted to be.

You don't have to be a socialist to worry about macroeconomics.

It seems more relevant to ask if it is possible to be a libertarian on behalf of others, not just yourself

Insulting Obama, how predictable. Having a black president must make you right wing libertarian types so fearful. First you create bitcoins when Obama first got inaugurated in 2009, and then another rally happens this spring when he gets inaugurated again, and now yet another rally when obamacare gets passed.

This.

Another example is that remittance is generally done by the "unbanked" and poor.  More than $400B is remitted annually and companies like WU on average collect 10% off the top.  That is $40B in wealth transfer from primary poor third world families to rich first world shareholders. Think about that OP, $40B a year spent by the working poor to simply move money and you are boycotting Bitcoin?  

http://remittanceprices.worldbank.org/

Now Bitcoin will never be "fee free" (especially converting local currency to fiat) but imagine years from now a worker in the US uses a Bitcoin ATM to buy BTC for a 2% fee.  He then send then BTC to his family on the other side of the globe for a negligible cost (~$0.05 right per KB right now).  The family uses a local exchanger who converts the BTC to local currency for say another 2% fee.  USD cash to local cash around the world for a 4% in fees vs 10% round trip.  6% saved on $400B is $24B additional wealth kept by working families.  That is just one year.  In a lifetime we are talking about something on the order of $1T and that is just with a 6% savings Bitcoin in time will probably drive costs even lower.  What do you think the poor could do with another $1T collectively?

Looking at society as a struggle between classes is the definition of socialism/communism. I don't care what your political ideology is, just don't taking my money and make me pay for those who are less fortunate than I am. People should not be forced to pay charity, it should be done voluntarily.

edit : typo

Are you going to boycott everything that's disproportionately used by white males? Or are your knickers specifically in a twist about bitcoin for some reason?

I thought your post was funny.

Especially how you called out straight people. Yep. Most bitcoiners are straight people because most people are straight people because Nature somehow doesn't think that it should be too easy for gay people to reproduce.

Now everyone knows you're gay, as well as a communist.


Good luck with your boycott!

{admit it - you just wanted to start a boycott because it has the word "boy" in it.  ;D}

You mean half-black? Or biracial? Or mixed? Or mulatto?

Only a racist would refer to him as "black", amirite?

Wow, you nailed it! Don't worry we will stop Bitcoin as soon a the US and A have a white president again  ::)

Seriously. Do you even read the stuff you post?

For emphasis.

What's your point?

You ever notice libtards are the most racist of them all?  ;D

Go back to watching CNN, everything is OK.

Opinion invalidated.

Still guarding it, LOL!  :D

somebody is butthurt because they didn't get any bitcoin and now they are over 600$ ;D

So did you boycott cellphones when they first came out? Same reasoning could have been applied to them at the time.  A mobile phone required some serious tech when they first came out and were very expensive. I've sure I could find similar demographics with them too. Did they help the privileged be more efficient with their time and extend their privilege as a result? You bet.

Did cellphones not eventually become accessible to almost anyone?

I'm willing to bet you have a cellphone.

Be sure to get rid of your computer. I am sure that us white rascist people helped develop that too!

Save some money and buy some bitcoins. It isn't to late yet.

I know a young homeless guy that collects cans and bottles. He bought 10 bitcoins about a year ago. Told me that he ate top ramen every night for months just so that he could buy them.

In 5 years, he will have a nice house and you will still be whining about white advantage.

Why are you boycotting Bitcoin then?  Why don't you boycott the people who impede and control trade who prevent these technologies from getting to people who don't have them?  Why do you insist we all go backwards instead?

You're silly and your argument is misdirected.  I'd tell you to go back to grade school, but that's likely the reason you think the way you do now.

I am boycotting toilet paper. Toilet paper is inherently classist, as you must already have money in order to purchase toilet paper, and people without money cannot obtain toilet paper. I will not be using toilet paper anymore. Next year I also hope to boycott toilets themselves (because you need to already have money to pay to have toilets installed in your house) and just start using holes in my backyard instead.

Somewhere, a village is missing their idiot.  :D

Well, let him boycott it.

Bitcoin is completely voluntary. In contrast to FIAT Currencies nobody forces you to use Bitcoin and hopefully no one ever will.

Maybe the white male developers couldn't get jobs in big corporations so they had to be innovative.

Bitcoin and other digital currencies are meant to be for everyone and will probably help many in developing countries without bank accounts.  Do some research.  It's never too late to be involved.

This just in: Bitcoin is biased against stupid people!

Next up: water is wet, fire hot

i'm pretty sure, knowing what you know now, you would have bought bitcoin 3 weeks ago when it was $110.

Sure he would have bought.

And then sold and used his profits to help homosexual low class black women with little access to technology.

Right, OP?

first off, i'd like to say that i do believe in bitcoins... but it's still a very high risk asset to hold. with that said, i think there are always a few guys like these in a crowd. he made this post, and if BTC goes down the drain he'll refer back to it and tell everyone "i TOLD you guys BTC was bullshit," feeling mighty and presciently all-knowing. if BTC goes to the moon, establishes a base, and then flies off to mars... then he'll keep his mouth shut (years down the road). it's a win/win scenario.

The OP is right, apart from the sniping at stereotypes.  I'm surprised and slightly frustrated by the response because it really only reinforces the secondary point that its a toy for nerds.

Take this response above: the guy in Africa with a smart phone, power to charge it and a SIM is relatively wealthy to those around him and many others without the smart phone. Most of 6.5 billion people do have access to a bank account if only they had the cash and a completed bank application. To acquire a bitcoin they need the cash to buy equipment to access the bitcoin system.  there's a barrier to entry either way, only a technological barrier, rather than an administrative one.  

You want to address this problem, you have to recognise it, and help make the equipment available - thats the difference that the bitcoin can have.  I'm surprised people dont see this and don't understand this, responding with hostility, or is it denial?  ???

May as well boycott the tide my friend.  See how that goes for you.

Everyone picks up bitcoin easily!

the scammers from nigeria and ghana can manage to access the internet to rob people and trick them into transferring money  for many years now
if they can do that they could also contact a bitcoin exchange and arrange  to buy a few coins

im sure banking regulations in africa are  not too strict either so anyone with some money could invest in btc 

You're racist!  You're boycotting it because white people use it?  RACIST!  Go away.

Inflation is a wealth transfer from the people to wall street to the central banks.

Eventually you will give in to btc!

Bitcoin is one of the greatest things that ever happened. It leveled the financial plane so that all of us can be free from the mess of the previous system if we chose to use it.

The community is here with the common purpose to promote it, discuss it and build on top of it. If I where you, I'd educate myself first, delete my account and then create another one to have a fresh start in this great part of history.

If you are closed minded and ignorant enough of reality as well as naive enough to believe the fiat of your government and the bankers have your best interest in mind you should stay out of the crypto scene.

Since-fuckyou-rely
the bitcoin community

bitcoin is a step in the right direction. its not the end of the line though. there will always be improvements. and while white men may be over represented, at least its YOUNG open minded and educated people who are gaining power and welath, not old, status quo elitists for the most part. i should add, its not inherent in bitcoin that it will be focused toward men more then women. it is gender roles in society that is responsible for this.

if i had to choose bitcoins user population to be the elite class, i would do it in a second. bitcoin users are the best of the population. and yes, a lot are libertarian. as are a lot of innovators these days. libertarian today in america just means someone who is sick of the current political system. at least to me. i dont think the average libertarian wants corporations to control the world.

My goodness, you're dumber than a turd. EVERY point you make is flat out wrong. I'm actually surprised you even know how to type.

Going pretty good so far

https://i.imgur.com/MT6U4Vo.jpg

That really sums it up, and it's fundamental difference compared to fiat. No one is forced to use it, but people do want to use it because they know there is no central issuing agency that can play with inflation however they fucking want.

Same arguments can be applied to using the internet itself, yet here you are, using the internet to post, will you be boycotting yourself from the internet as well to reaffirm your point? :)

True; they could always sit in jail for failing to pay their taxes :)

That would imply vagrancy; I'm not sure which is better.  In one case, you get shelter and meals, but in the other case, you're less likely to be sexually assaulted...

Right; if you have no money, you have no property, for if you had property, you would need to pay a property tax, and because you had no money to pay your property tax, you could not own property (at least, not for very long), therefore you would be a vagrant.

You could also get by as a mooch, now that I think about it; you'd be at the whims of whomever was housing you but that's no fun.  It'd be hard to find a job; most everyone pays in fiat.  I suppose you could barter...

my asian wife disagrees with the Op ... go figure...  :-*

It's a wee bit more than just inconvenient, is the point I'm trying to get across.

Lets assume we are American, for example; Obama decides everyone needs healthcare and will fine you 100$ for every month you don't get it.

Now what?  How do you move to another nation without fiat?

If you have assets and no legal tender and owe taxes the agents of the state will confiscate your assets and sell them at auction to pay your tax debt.  If you resist said confiscation the agents of the state will use violence to ensure the confiscation is successful.  If you defend yourself against that violence you will be going to jail unless you catch a bad case of dead first.

HAHAHA!

Well at the risk of nonpayment penalties and estate auctions tend to get pretty low dollar.  So your $10,000 tax bill might be $15,000 with penalties, fees, and interest and the state may confiscate $30,000 worth of goods to auction off.  Any excess from the auction will be returned to you as legal tender.  Also while this may work for one or two years habitual tax evasion is a crime and you will end up in jail.

So saying legal tender is voluntary is like saying food is voluntary.  You can voluntarily choose to starve to death.  See you don't really need food, air, or water either.  You just want those things to avoid an untimely death.  When you stretch a definition to the point of stupidity well it is just stupid. 

bitcoin is agnostic to who uses it for what and who owns it. The tech/maths stands on its own merits

you may be confusing the uses and users of BTC with the bitcoin itslef

This is dumb. If you owe taxes you have something to pay taxes with. If you owe taxes and you can't pay taxes because you blew your money then yes you will get into trouble.

If you have no money you have no taxes. If you have money you have taxes. End of story.

Notice I did not say "go to jail" I said "get in trouble" as in the IRS owns your house, you get what's left. You still have assets, and those assets are worth money. Same thing as owning money to the IRS. If you hide assets or do the same thing year after year I can see you going to jail.

And if a homeless person finds a million dollars, well then that homeless man now has money then am I right? Thank you for proving my point. A Porsche is a rather terrible asset, still the same as cash.

A guy in Africa with access to a smart-phone and a mailbox can transact with almost anyone on the planet. No currency has ever been able to hand power to the poor like bitcoin.

With services like moneero it won't even need to be a smart phone. Any phone will do, you can send via sms.

My point is if you wish to own anything at all, or you ever wish to own anything at all, in the US you will at some point have to use FIAT to pay taxes on what you own. Of course you don't have to pay, but if you don't they take your stuff and sell it for FIAT which is the same thing.

Even if you only work for food, you never get paid a single FIAT dollar for labor in your life, you still owe income tax equivalent to the dollar value of the food you receive. Same with getting paid with bitcoins, same with gold. You owe the US GOV fed dollars, if you want to stay legal.

I'm done. If you think you can actually live (and I mean live, not exist) in the US without ever touching the USD I can't do anything for you.

SRS scum detected. Added to ignore list.

It sickens me to see that you disgusting excuses for human beings have spread to bitcointalk. I've witnessed your sad attempts at suppressing free-speech all over the internet. You cannot suppress the free currency.

Go back to your clan of ugly, hairy, women; your shilling doesn't work here.

Um, I'm not a libertarian. I'm actually a socialist anarchist at heart. I support Bitcoin in part precisely because it opens up an alternate form of currency and value in nations for which trust in the local currency is sketchy at best, in crippling hyperinflation at worst. Perhaps you're not aware of the fact that more people in Kenya have smartphones than they do running water.  The internet itself began as a technology reserved for an entitled few, but has become *the* global form of communication, used by both rich and poor.

I sense a rather smug "better-than-thou" elitism in your own words, so I don't plan to waste a lot of time trying to get you to see Bitcoin from a different perspective. But I suspect that you would have written more or less the same words about the Internet in the mid 90s - on paper with pen - and hand delivered it to a local computer user group - of largely heterosexual white males.

China is rapidly becoming the dominant hub of Bitcoin activity.  I don't think they would take too kindly to your claim that they are "white".  In fact, they might consider you a bit of a racist.

But continue to boycott Bitcoins. It really doesn't matter to anyone but you. The world will continue to evolve technologically, but there will always be those who - for whatever reason - resist progress.

Also, boycott dollars. They only serve to uphold the current kyriarchal socioeconomic structures by making sure the privileged become more privileged.  Maybe you can find someone who will accept payment in leaves or bark. Just don't oppress the trees in the process of collecting them.

So you are suggesting we go back to the stone age and have stones as money? That way everbody have access to money. Yup, that's a good idea.

I agree, maybe at first it was a white currency but it sure is not that now. China controls most of the exchanges and has the investment money to blow bitcoins out of the sky in value. And dude, I'm a Native American and I use bitcoin, what are you talking only white people use bitcoin. Really?

Merit rules. If Bitcoin is the answer to political correctness.. then I'll encourage others to use it.

(BTW... I am not White, and I am not middle class. I am Asian and I am lower-middle class).

Fedora on our heads, buttcoins in our wallet, freeze peaches in our hearts, all topped off by a touch of casual misogyny. Behold, your typical bitcoin user.

I suppose it is asking too much of you to extend your boycott to the bitcointalk forum.  But please consider it.

I don't know how I missed this thread a while ago... but WTF?

I can only speak on the United States, but every fucking pre teen + and older has a fucking smart phone in their pocket. Every illegal immigrant at Home Depot has a smart phone in their wallet. Fuck... government even subsidizes internet costs for low income families. Everyone has internet. Sure, Rowanda may not have internet access, but everyone else can send or receive BTC.

Aren't the socialist anarchists the original libertarians?? :P Anyways I like them much more than the neo-libertarians who don't realize that their beloved system works because their corporations are in bed with governments.

You Believe or not , Bitcoin doesn't care  ;D

This just in, when a girl and/or non-technical person tries to start bitcoin, it says that they're not allowed to use bitcoin. The miners are also able to tell the race and sex of the person who created a bitcoin address, and will not mine those transactions.

You know whats really classist?

Banks.

Where did he get those numbers?

His ass.

Exactly. I don't see the point in random people making random pointless threads that don't affect anything in the bitcoin world.

Interesting to see no one's debunked me yet.

You call a cheap PC "high levels of technology"?

It`s no secret that bitcoins can be printed and used as paper money.

You don`t need rocket technology to use btc or mine them.

You are not obligated to mine them, so why do you care about electricity bills?

I really don`t know how bitcoin can make "privlieged become more privileged".

Because only people privileged enough to own computers can own bitcoins. Which results in a feedback loop that keeps the poor people out. Meanwhile those privileged enough to have computers profit off it and become even richer.

Your comment deserves more response.  ;D Maybe the yellow skins are hiding with a whiter one to let people see that they are middle class.  ;D What a nice suit they have. I want one.

You are absolutely right.I have been using bitcoin for over a year now and believe me I haven't used even once my laptop to send bitcoin.I have a bitcoin wallet installed on my android mobile and I use it to send,buy or sell bitcoin and that doesn't makes me techy as it is normal these days

true talk..you can be 2x richer with bitcoin when you are rich...then poor some can't afford..

Meaning Bitcoin can be use by everyone, whether you are a bad or good person. For what most importan is the usage of bitcoin must continue to grow so the higher demand should be, is the higher price would be in the near future.

Therefore bitcoin is an of opportunity were it be an instrument/tools that can be use to achieve you goal in life.  True that rich get richer  but "the poor  stays poor I beg disagree..Why? even you start doing bitcoin as a poor or can afford for anything, you still have a chance to make your life be prosper as long as you hold on you believing in bitcoin and do the basic step for you to succeed your journey in bitcoin world.

the price of the bitcoin it effect on demand and also stock a bitcoin is in mining. If you want to get a good enough price or very high then you can get it without the presence of a fairly high growth of users. you just wait for 4 years sure price will increase very high

The point is that every population should be "classist" because every population is ultimately limited by resources, and in every population, a fraction has to die of what we call "poverty" (starvation and other ways that naturally limit numbers).

As such, there is always a 'class' that has to die of poverty, and it is best if there is a kind of natural selection that makes the best ones survive, and the least preforming ones die quickly.   In the most natural way, there should also be a line of heritage where the best ones can make their children have more chances and the poor ones shouldn't have much surviving children.  It is the way nature keeps populations limited, and species performing.

As such, if performing subgroups find ways to leverage their performance and their advantage, there's nothing wrong with it, on the contrary.  That's how nature works.  There shouldn't be any "public correction mechanisms" such as states and other parasitic re-distributors of merit that cheat on how nature is keeping species performing.

How do you know the sexuality of bitcoin users?

To the OP: It will be better if people like you stay the fuck out of Bitcoin. To make things clear to you, wealth redistribution is not one of the aims of Bitcoin. In 2012, I joined the Bitcoin community, as I was fed up with the exploitation from the banking cartels and the government financial regulators. Back then most of the users here were such ideologically driven people. We don't want any affirmative action or political correctness.

thats true, a lot of people say that it would be trouble with the technology though every person has at least some kind of a shitty smartphone to do than or can buy it really cheap

There are tons of people who use bitcoin that I assume are dirt-poor.  Scammers around here for sure.  Bitcoin is most certainly not for the elite.  If you have a smartphone--which most people do--you can use bitcoin.  You can use it from the library if you wanted to.  But unfortunately the places to actually spend it are nil.  At least that I know of.  Maybe merchants in other countries are more enlightened.  Not so much in the U.S.

I personally think that it is not classist cause everyone could buy, trade, and earn bitcoins.  Anyone could have it as long as they have internet connection and a gadget to connect with it.  As through gadgets or devices of course you need them to mine and have some bitcoins.  I am just using my smartphone to do all the investing, trading, and earning.  If you think that way and amwant to boycott the bitcoin then go ahead.  Just make sure we will not see your name here anymore.

This is sounding like this is coming from some "communist-revolution Bernie Sanders $15 minimum wage 100% taxes for the rich" meme that you would see on the internet. I have not seen someone who legitimately speaks or acts this way and isn't trolling with their statements.

Yes, Bitcoin is classist based on that definition. You know what else is classist? Healthcare. You know what else? Jobs. Not everyone has access to some sort of job and the middle class becomes inherently better than the lower class. Communist societies? Classist, you now have card holders of the ruling party posted above the average worker.

I'm not going to spend more time than that on this post because it literally reads like some sort of copypasta with a bunch of buzzwords in place of an actual argument. When there is some actual content that can be debated, let me know because too often things that read like this are bait.

Well, I sure he just always seeing a lot of males is appearing in a lot of bitcoin project for advertising, introducing and another like that. In my opinions, the bitcoin users are dominated by the male gender. ;D

I do not think so. Because I do see many many bitcoin projects are aiming women and having women as their brand ambassador. But that may be local to my country. But internationally too, we have a common practice of having women models for any product as it will target both the genders with obvious reasons. Hope this trend will change for a better future of bitcoin particularly to stop people boycotting any more.

Not sure if what was the case in back 2013 but now a days anyone from any corner of the world with just a little knowledge about technology can send or receive bitcoins as long as he knows how to use a wallet or how to buy and earn bitcoins, there is no concept like it is only for those with access to moderately high levels of technology can spend or receive it.

Bitcoin get popularity and increase the price by the community. community that always use and introduce bitcoin to other people.
bitcointalk is one of them. so, why you register and posting on here?

You can't know the gender of someone by his/her username. I have come across several people in real world too where people have gender neutal names.In some languages and cultures children are given unisex names which are common for both gender

It is a matter of strategy there are other ways to generate bitcoin other than mining. And mining BTC is not really profitable even if you buy just one expensive mining equipment. Also BTC has been popular because it can do many things that Fiat can't do, it is widely accepted in the internet as it took advantage of it. It's up to you if you really want to quit.

There are a lot of way of earning bitcoin, not only by mining, you can earn from signature campaign and for me its good that the children can earn some money, and i can say that i also collect bitcoin from scratch and now my earning can cover the electric bills, if you think bitcoin is so bad then leave it, find another things that interested for you

Mining is one way of the many on how you can get bitcoin. I, myself dont mine bitcoin. I buy bitcoins and trade then. And I also gambe some of my bitcoin for fun. Because I earn decent amount of bitcoin without mining.

Simply because it is a digital currency.   You should know that bitcoin is programmed with codes and syntax like that.  It is now a digital age so you really need some techno gadgets to mine, trade, invest, and earn those bitcoins.  But you do not need to be a genius like Satoshi to have some of it.  I am just using my phone to do some earning and investing so it just means that it is not classist.  Anyone can earn through it. 

It won't be "classist" for long and I am not sure it is even that at this point.  May demographics are involved with Bitcoin and that will increase as time goes on.  Are you still boycotting?

I love reading these old necro threads to see how many respected users are now considered scammers.

Why necro an opinion thread where the OP (the guy with the opinion) hasn't even been around in three years?

Why should I boycotting Bitcoins? I don't see any reason into it for me to do that.  After all bitcoin  had so many things that had done to me in this field of industry. Therefore I cannot do such things like this. Because I'm a bitcoin fanatic and bitcoin lover's too.

Op seem to be a true hater of bitcoin.but let me tell you that no one tell you to mine bitcoin and burn ur machines or play with the stocks its ur chooise and always research before putting your miney on anything

Considering the difficulty, solo mining for bitcoin isn't profitable anymore unless you have a few thousands of USD as capital for a bunch of S9's and for maintenance/utility bills.
It's a shame to just quit on bitcoin without even going further into the ways of attaining them.

Boycotting bitcoins? For mad people, i think the main problems, why people starting  talking bad about  bitcoin is their problems with earnings or something like this.

So as a fix I should give my coins to poor gay women? Anyone is free to use bitcoin. In fact no one can even stop you from using them. But since bitcoin is just a math program no one is going to come to your house and show you how. I don't see why bitcoin is unfair in any way. You are rewarded for doing, not wanting or being disenfranchised, only doing something. The people who are privileged in society (and poor) who are becoming wealthier with bitcoin are participating.

It is hard for a person who is tech illiterate. But then again dollars are hard to use if you can't read and I don't think you could even get a credit card if you are illiterate. Again bitcoin is just money. It is not a tool for tax evasion, not a tool to right the social injustice of the world, not an investment vehicle, It's money. 

not necessarily when the rumors Boycotting it would make the reduction enthusiasts of Bitcoin instead could make more popular because people who do not know will find out about bitcoin and we do not have to worry about it because bitcoin is very strong at the moment.

thats true, then the new people think that bitcoins are bad though i would never turn my back on bitcoins because they are great

Boycotting in something does not mean that it is bad for the rest of the people that want to use it.
If I boycotted using Apple products does that mean that everybody is wrong for using it? ::)

How did you come to such conclusions? Have you studied the Bitcoin, made some queries among people, did some researches or is this just your own prejudice without any real ground?

No, I don't think bitcoin was designed to discriminate anyone. It is true that its use requires certain technologies inaccessible for some people, but it's undoubted that this indispensable requirements are more accessible every day and most people is starting to adapt this technological advances to their ordinary lives, as internet connection and smartphones.

bitcoin are the best currency that is going to be around for a really long time and those haters will be just wasting their time

Agreed that haters of bitcoin are just wasting energy and time with trying to defame it.
It will strive to be the best and with such a user base now there is no stopping it now! ;D

it will definitely not have a bad impact, there are alot of people who actually hate on bitcoins and it doesnt have any impact

Maybe you are right, that the people who cannot earn it do such things or the ones who hears bad news about it from media or some other source and after that they start having negative thoughts about it and say they are boycotting it.

So let me guess. You surely can do net banking these days with your bank and can use your debitcards to withdraw from the ATM's. These use sophisticated technology as well. You can use the same or lesser technology to transact in Bitcoins. There are even services to SMS to send bitcoins. Also Bitcoin has no strong correlation with Race, income brackets of individuals and those who are privileged. Even the poor in Africa can make use of Bitcoins to send/receive remittances from their family working abroad.

Also i think the other people are experience of bad thing like scam are one who are boycotting it..  they are not trusting bitcoin because of they are experience of no guarantee and they can do any.

hahaha what a whinny we rant, by an over privileged wee brat who would rather talk about how hes better off then the poor people than actually help them by doing something about it. partaking and shaping its direction. 

so what your leaving, big deal you wont be missed.  now piss off and let the rest off us get on with helping to make the world a better more equitable place....... 8)

the main problem is that a lot of people are actually refusing to use bitcoins at the moment and it is really sad, i hope it will change soon

There is also a high probability of your equipment not work properly chances are overheating, no proper maintenance and other things that even a handy man can't fix. In order for mining to be profitable you always need to consider all the cost/expenses you will have rather than focusing on how much btc you are having.

Yeah, until the government decides to replace fiat with government coin and then everybody will move from bitcoins to government coin. ;D

I can accept your opinion about bitcoin, but i don't think so because bitcoin (in my opinion) is new technology on Internet and becoming new currency. And bitcoin users doesn't pay the taxes because of there are not rules about it , at every countries of bitcoin users.