Nailed it.

If your house was like Bitcoin - secured by the laws of the universe itself, mathematics, you'd be fucked if you lost your keys.

Is it possible you celebrity-cult tools will ever shut the hell up ?

Debt is slavery.

Prove it. How do you know death is not simply a reset button where you get to start over?

You don't know, and neither do I. I find your fear of death to be irrational, especially in light of the known suffering of existence.

Of course it's not. No tool is good or evil, they are all neutral. Value judgements, whether negative or positive always come AFTER we see how humans use these tools.
If the government wanted to, they could divide evenly all printed fiat each day to every person in the nation. They choose not to do that. They choose to instead provide that money to the oligarchs exclusively.

Fiat currency has been used to enslave the world to debt, and therefore we say it is evil. It is not, however, inherently evil.

2nd phase?  Sure, as long as you concede that there are about 10,000 phases of logarithmic growth ahead, it's all just semantics.

Well said.

In response to OP, I highly recommend a viewing of Jeff Garzik's excellent Bitcoin the Organism TED talk.

Not only will Bitcoin not fail, Bitcoin will save many economies from failing, probably saving countless lives in the not too distant future. Bitcoin is a lifeboat on the Titanic.

Understanding capitalism in one image:



Slums on the left | BIG FUCKING CONCRETE WALL | 1% on the right.

I've seen this argument before, when debating theists about their imaginary friend(s)...

"I am not CLAIMING that there is a god, only pointing out that it is a possibility."

That's nice honey. There's just one problem with that logic - EVERYTHING is a possibility. Pointing out something as a possibility is the same as saying nothing at all. So don't waste your bandwidth and our time by doing it.

I answered 1,000+ just to fuck with your poll. In reality I have far, far fewer BTC.

Internet polls, seems legit right?

We are all suffering, friend. It seems hard to imagine when you are drowning in your own misery, but you are not alone. A world governed by violence reduces quality of life for everyone.

It's a bad habit I must admit. The truth is I am in possession of a commodity even rarer than Bitcoin. It's called "radical imagination", and for me it is a feeling similar to being in love. An emotional state that can be difficult to express in words, but for the first time in a long time I have hope for humanity. I will share something personal about myself, with no ego I will tell you I have what could be considered "exceptional" intelligence, and for most of my life that has meant a great deal of suffering, depression, and anxiety. Imagine yourself as a peace-loving, compassionate, non-violent human being who is stuck living in a world of violent chimps. Imagine your entire childhood being held under the power of these creatures, and you may have a glimpse into my suffering. The one good thing about suffering is that it is extremely fertile soil for growing knowledge. I survived the worst periods of my life and in the aftermath sought desperately to understand WHY I have suffered so much, and this journey of self-understanding led me to question everything I had once believed.

True wisdom is not the accumulation of ever more knowledge. True wisdom comes from UNLEARNING all the false truths that you were so damn sure about. You have been lied to your entire life, by people who have been lied to their entire lives. That's reality. Hard to grasp, I know.

And yeah, I know, more grandiose claims without backing them up, more asserting my superior intelligence. What can I tell you, I'm speaking from the heart without ego, there's no other way for me to tell it than to tell it as it is.
 
No, I have nothing mixed up. Capitalism - like the nation-state - necessitates systematic heirarchy-based violence to exist. Just as was the case in the age of outright slavery, ours is a world governed by violence and the threat thereof. Wage-slavery has the same requirement as slavery.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, on this little spec of dust we call Earth there is a zero-sum game between violence and reason. As one waxes, the other wanes. In the end our survival will come down to whether or not we allow reason to vanquish the rule of violence once and for all.

Bitcoin offers our first real opportunity to move past the "might makes right" paradigm of capitalism and the nation-state, and move toward a more just, equal, sane world that is governed by reason. We damn well better take it.

Franky I've always respected your opinions and insights on this forum, on most days you are a very valuable community member here. But on this matter I could not possibly disagree more strongly.
I have been there, visited the headquarters. Coinbase.com is legit, they have the foresight to understand that building a solid reputation today will be worth billions tomorrow. They will never gox us, they're smarter than that. They share our vision of a more peaceful world.

Coinbase.com will be around for a long, long time. And they will always have my business, and I will always speak well of them to any who ask for my advice.

As for all the children spinning theories about gunmen and rubber hoses, please grow up and realize most people will never accept the level of risk required to rob people at gunpoint - putting one's life and freedom on the line for a SLIM CHANCE at getting rich?
That kind of insanity is for the desperate only, and these days the desperate don't have access to guns. They're certainly not better equipped than the average police department, and sure as HELL can't compete with the 10,000 heavily-armed soldiers of the NYPD.

ONE MILLION DOLLARS!

The thing is, unlike fiat money, Bitcoin has the ability to build escrow services in code directly on top of the blockchain, making Paypal (and their exorbitant fees) obsolete!

PayPal using bitcoin = same extortionist fees as with fiat. Bitcoin using integrated escrow = same service without the high fees. Which do you think survives in a free market?

Hint: Blockbuster video ain't doing so great these days.

It's so true. When I first got into Bitcoin I was one of fools thinking it could be predicted, but the reality is Bitcoin's price floats up and down with the winds of public opinion.

Meteorologists use multi-million dollar pieces of technology to analyze and predict the weather on a day to day basis. They still get it wrong half the time.

You sure spent a lot of effort analyzing the Bitcoin weather, pal. I'm more interested in climate trends. You day-traders are out of your depth.

Bitcoin, like Earth, is getting hotter every year. Bitcoin's growth is normal.

I really can't fathom why more people just don't keep their money on Coinbase...

It's true, the simplest thing to do would be hand over control of the coins (if even possible - it really shouldn't be in your home), and immediately call the cops. Also go public with what happened to the Bitcoin community.

You'd have your coins back within a few days, I suspect. Remember, Bitcoin has a lot of white hat hackers watching out for theft and making sure thieves don't get away with it. They do this because it strengthens Bitcoin.

Real solution to Rubber Hose attack? Coinbase.com

Your logic does not compute. New York is the toughest city, and I am the toughest guy in it. I therefore win this infantile e-toughness battle. Now grow the hell up and discuss something worthwhile.