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I made a graphic to refute mastercard's recent statements about bitcoin:

https://i.imgur.com/PdfpxEV.jpg (https://i.imgur.com/PdfpxEV.jpg)

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

Details on Mastercard's Statement:

http://www.coindesk.com/mastercard-seeks-level-playing-field-bitcoin-regulation/ (http://www.coindesk.com/mastercard-seeks-level-playing-field-bitcoin-regulation/)

I think the graphic does a good job of refuting the statement and should help to correct some of misconceptions about bitcoin.

Use, modify, distribute as you will. Thanks!

I like the graphic :-) mind if i keep saved on computer for later sharing????

nice work  :)

Thanks! No problem at all...

Save, use, modify, distribute however you want!

 
Why not posting it ?

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

EDIT : pix updated

What's that Mastercard? You don't like people slandering your name?

In that case... here you go:

https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FPdfpxEV.jpg&t=546&c=kqetywASJB1jqA
Edited so that Seizure is spelled right.

Good point, added to the original post. Also, I posted this in /r/bitcoin too and someone freaked out about the inflation thing. I know that there is currently inflation. I meant long term, but whatever. I took that out.

I have done a bad thing Seizure was misspelled >:( The original post has been updated. Please use the new image. I don't want the misspelling to reflect poorly on the community.

NICE 8)

Well this will certainly get them pissed. lol. Nice work OP.

Currency..but i still cant even get a bigmac with btc
or fried chicken at kfc

I can get you pizzas for 10K BTC.

Using the new one to show folkks now i like it alot :-)

Mastercard does not actually have any kind of store of value. Using a mastercard credit card will only make it so you end up owing money and cannot actually store any assets with mastercard

Nice work. Mastercard and visa etc. are ways to extract rather than store value. 

Lower fee and distributed control are a little misleading for bitcoin.

I'm going to be a grammar nazi for this post.

Please either change "Get your facts straight" to a different font or colour, or put a fullstop after "straight".

I rest my case.

It's nice to see someone gathering the positives and put it on a picture.

I think the middle section should be a mixture of the outside section colors.  I know the middle words are supposed to represent both sides, but the stripes could confuse some people and make them think the words in the middle apply to one side or the other instead of both sides.  For instance, toward the top, illegal goods is on the bitcoin color and legal goods is on the mastercard color.  Anyone truly confused by this might read the rest of the list based on colors and just think it's stupid and wrong instead of realizing that they apply to both sides.

The statement "Store of value" should belong to bitcoin. Just to be fair towards this community. Btc price though has been decreasing but I can see that 300 usd seems to be the bottom support. Just bought my small stash at 350 so I expect to go up in years to come :)

hope you posted that through a vpn. hahahaha. get ready to get contact from a lawyer

Haha , nice Graphic really ;D MasterCard will lose their minds just like Wester Union did about one week ago ;D this is going to be fun  :D

Nice graphic ;)

Think it might be best change some of the middle section like The00Dustin suggested because at the moment it kind of looks like Bitcoin finances terrorism, enables buying illegal goods etc

Charge back is a good thing if it is used to protect consumers. However, it is used in fraud some times.

Nice stuff, my congrats. Good point for the non community members.

Agree, the no chargeback-thingy isn't exactly something that makes bitcoin superior ,it actually makes it less attractive.

Why would anyone want to factor in unimportant stuff like say merchant adoption, regulatory acceptance or risk of loosing your funds. If i did not know about bitcoin and i would see this, i would have the instant feeling you are trying to rip me off.

Since this looks like a group effort...

"Please get your facts straight" comes across as being too much in-my-face. May I suggest simply...



...sans the 'Please' as in I'm/We're begging you!

Ooch! I know it's just a list of terms that both have in common (center of Venn diagram), but having Illegal Goods in the shaded yellow part oppose to the reddish shade doesn't bode well, I believe. Again, may I suggest adjusting said list a tad so that Illegal Goods is in the shaded reddish section, albeit a challenge due to the word/term lengths and adhering to font size.

BTW, nice job and can't wait to see the finished product vectorized.

i love it :-)

Love it ... i like it a lot... Great work you did with that

Great work, we should tweet this to MasterCard   :D

But they probably will sue us for doing so, they are quite harsh on people who use their logo.

good image in general.

^i agree

Good work, Matthew Driver should see this comparison to clarify his confusion ;D

Great graphic, but Dustin's point in bold is important.

This is very nice, following in the footsteps of the now infamous WU btc graphic...

Excellent, the suckers are getting scared.  :)

i got bored so i summarized the OP's message

https://i.imgur.com/NQfe8cq.png

really a nice graphic design with detailed info
it explains why bitcoin is better then those online wallet and merchants

make some more with paypal,payza, and others

They cannot take you to court, if you talk the truth.  ;) - You counter sue, and make them pay you.

Let them face up to the truth.  ;D

Never get into a suing match with large corporations.
They have deep pockets.
Even if you speak the truth, the process can break you.