This says it all:
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Stanislav says: October 11, 2012 at 8:05 pm
Dear Omnifarious,
If you look closely, this page has an ordinary donation button. Which takes donations in boring old national currencies. As you can probably guess, I am not, at present, much of a Bitcoin user. (Although my collection of FPGAs, kept around for an entirely different purpose, sometimes mines Bitcoin.)
Yours, -Stanislav"
LOL! From the author himself.
I'm sorry but why the need for an ad hominem, why not use logic and evidence to rebut his argument? Could it be that it's because he makes a good argument?
*need to read the entire thing before I give my opinion*
what makes you think i didn't read the entire article first, dummy?
an ad hominem is pointing out an
irrelevant, unrelated negative argument to avoid arguing the main point. using fpga's to mine Bitcoin is a highly relevant fact in pointing out the hypocrisy in the author's arguments against Bitcoin. that's ok; all we need is more skeptics like him to desire obtaining a few Bitcoin "just in case" to make it rock.
to get to the main arguments his can be boiled down to two:
1.
Bitcoiners can be very stupid and persistent in trying to develop meatspace financial markets or interfaces. can't argue with this one. i've always thought Amir, Donald, and now Nefario were stupid to pursue "approval" from regulators. i find it interesting that failures have been confined to the UK. devs should be active in trying to develop a distributed exchange.
2.
the jackpot of gov't regulation will stomp out Bitcoin. this argument is nothing new and has been debated up, down, and sideways. the market price and current longevity of Bitcoin argue against this and we have plenty examples to back the decentralized argument like bittorrent.
*i still think you're a shitty moderator for having allowed Atlas to post no less than 5-6 simultaneous threads bashing the devs and the BF.*
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