Sort of off-topic, but I noticed you have the bitcoin foundation member avatar, I am also a member - how do I get my badge to show here on the forums?

You know who HASN'T denied being Nakamoto? Saddam Hussein.

Thanks, Obamacare!

OP is right, Bitcoin vs. Political power is an absolute must-see. Seriously, this is the best and most important talk on Bitcoin ever.

I've started watching other Molyneux vids as well, and am quickly realizing this is a brilliant and prescient individual. If you're interested, check out his lecture on Ending the War on Drugs.

Just world fallacy is indeed a huge problem, especially for the 'murican sheeple. But we're waking up - slowly.

The majority of morons, maybe. The red flags were there months before Gox imploded, months before they stopped allowing BTC withdrawals.

No, for many months Bitcoin was "under the radar" of governments so to speak, it didn't really come to negative attention until it started being worth 500 times more than the US dollar.

Temporary. Just like the Copywrong War, the War on Drugs, the War on Terror, and everything else in this life and the next.

All things come to pass in time.

This is a 600 page book written by a statistician. I'm about 200 pages in, this is heavy and dry material! Caveat Emptor!

But if you do decide to dive in, some excellent companion reads are

-A brief history of neoliberalism
-The Empathic Civilization (Jeremy Rifkin)
-First as Tragedy, then as farce (Slavoj Zizek)
-A People's History of the United States (Howard Zinn)
-Confessions of an Economic Hitman
-The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Naomi Klein)
-Earth in Mind (David W. Orr)
-Guns, Germs, and Steel

The data and analysis are sound, but I strongly disagree with the conclusions the author draws. He tells us that capitalism has systemically driven INEQUALITY all throughout history - and shows us the data to prove it! Then he says the only times inequality AREN'T increasing are times of extreme government intervention, such as the New Deal just after the Great Depression.

So capitalism naturally causes inequality, wealth basically behaves like objects in space affected by gravity. Larger masses of wealth attract wealth from smaller masses.

I read this book as a total condemnation of capitalism itself (disclaimer: I was already an anti-capitalist before reading), but the author says we should just repeat the cycle of massive redistribution of wealth from the elite 1% down to the masses, again and again and again. This horrible cycle of half a century of suffering, he wants us to do the SAME THING WE DID LAST TIME. Fuck that, and fuck him.

Capitalisms got to go. Fuckers gots ta GO!!

As far how Bitcoin is going to join the conversation, you should probably watch this Bitcoin vs. Political Power if you haven't already.

Share it with everyone.

Related to OP: Bitcoin vs. Political Power

Concealed handguns are pretty cool, but concealed Shuriken (ninja stars) are WAY cooler.

Can you teach me how to be effective with ninja weapons?

If anything goes wrong at those speeds, your little shuttle becomes a railgun shell. A kinetic energy weapon of massive destructive power. At least your death will be instant and painless.

Only if you're a cheap tipper. 

The difference is, impatient fools aren't trying to use the dollar or the pound as a get rich quick scheme.

All this sponsorship buzz and similar "ZOMG WE'VE GOT TO MARKET BITCOIN!" bullshit is about greed.

You're right, Bitcoin does not need sponsorship of any kind.

What Bitcoin DOES require, however, is patience.

Not likely.

As someone who worked in the Non-prof sector for six years, I promise you that it is every bit as corrupt and despicable as any other entity dealing with large sums of American money. Those at the top pay themselves exuberant salaries, all the focus is on raking in maximum donations as possible, the hell with the "mission" - that's just another tool to get people to throw money at your organization, in the vast majority of cases.

The proliferation of "Corporate partnership" with non-profits is the big red flag...

What made you have this expectation? I have a hunch the source of the problem is your expectation, and this may or may not be related to (typically dishonest) product marketing.

Next time just buy Bitcoins, at 430, BTC's fiat exchange rate has almost assuredly reached a nadir.

I'd go with 10,000 $ per coin.

You are Satoshi Nakamoto.

ITT: Agent provocateur attempting to discredit Bitcoin foundation.

How is this better than just, you know, sending the crypto directly to their wallet - or to their coinbase account - or printing out a paper wallet for them?

What is the problem your application is attempting to solve?

Didn't 80% of the forum already agree to move to bits?

Stop with the asinine polls people, we've already reached a consensus.

All technology is exactly as you described, when viewed on a long enough timescale.

All altcoins are shitcoins, Bitcoin will assimilate you.

McDonalds! Let's get Monsanto while we're at it, and go for that big pharma dollar too!

Seriously though.

Long term is looking pretty good too: