I am a programmer (Haskell, C, Perl, Ruby, Perl, Scala etc), 29 years old, 3 children and have a good job. I live in the Netherlands. Politically I am a libertarian, but with some strange nationalistic tendencies. I know, that's bad, but it seems it somehow got mixed up in my system.
I have been quite a while interested in bitcoin, but only observed it, because I was busy setting up a company (and then again and again). My other interests are cryptography, stenography, programming -of course-, mathematics, physics and the financial world. This last interest I picked up quite late. Unfortunately too late, because if I was more interested I would have jumped in the bitcoin project more early, but I am happy there is a real free currency with free as in freedom. I have also a strong interest in psychology, religions, medicine -especially drugs-, writing poems and martial arts.
I probably like to discuss here about economics, technical stuff, programming, politics, psychology and from time to time try some experiment. I also are willing to help others with stuff. Mostly doesn't matter what, as long as it interests me and I have time. And sometimes I will troll, but I don't have bad intentions when I do that. Just poking then.
I also live in the Netherlands, however not from here originally. What do you think about the chances of bitcoin becoming mainstream in Holland?
I see these factors:
-general public does not like the euro in general
-distrust in the banking system
-does not like bailing out the southerners with their hard earned tax money
-very strong sense of freedom and individualism
-modern libertarian society
-good track record of accepting new ground breaking ideas (example: reformist church, birth control, euthanasia, same sex marriage etc)
-high tech IT literature population
Could Holland be a pioneer country for a decentralized currency?
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