Here's one:

No alien invasions happen, no 10km radius asteriods hit Earth, no world wide nuclear war, and no mass extinction events.

Yeah, I know, it's a lot to ask for.

It's unfortunate so many bitcoiners are delusional to this "decentralized" hype. 99.999% of people don't get a pile of elephant feces about decentralization. No one cares. As far as they're concerned, big banks are a lot more trustworthy than some anarchist internet nerds.


Do you really think that people will one day wake up and realize how glorious decentralization is and how it will solve all of the world's problems? Please.


If bitcoiners actually thought about things from an objective and realistic perspective, and took steps to ensure bitcoins success, I think bitcoin has a good chance. But if everyone is so delusional, then bank or government crypto is going to completely overtake bitcoin, and bitcoin will either die or just used by a few anarchist/libertarians.

What happened to the first one, went bust? I thought so. Dude, if you want to lose money yourself, go ahead. Stop trying to trick other people into it. Don't be such an asshole. Come on, don't you have a conscience?

Uh, not really. But even if that was true, so what? the vast majority of comments and opinions are not original. Are you going to congratulate every single one of them?

Not really. It just depends on what type of a person you are and what goals/motives you have.

You know, a few months ago I saw this guy screaming and jumping up and down at the lottery stand in a corner store, and I thought, hey, did this guy win the jackpot...

Well guess what, he won a whole 700 dollars. That's right, not 50 million, not 1 million, not even 10,000. Just 700. I saw him a couple days later at the store again, and he was telling people about the "great time" he had at the casino that weekend.

Would he have sold at $75, had he bought bitcoins at $5? No! He would've sold at $7. That's the kind of person you know will stay poor for the rest of their lives.

For me, I wouldn't even be excited if I got $50,000. That's not going to change my life in any way. I don't really need a new car or a vacation. I don't need $50,000. No big deal. So I know I won't sell until bitcoins become at least a certain amount. Even if bitcoin increases 50x from now, I won't even be tempted to sell (unless at that time I knew it was just a bubble, and I could buy back at a cheaper price).

I don't need a bank to manage my wallet either. I use a bank because it gives convenient services. Decentralization is completely overrated.

I wonder how many of the "bitcoin companies" are really just "crypto companies", and can easily pivot or add another coin to their service. I think that VCs probably have considered the slight possibility of another crypto overtaking bitcoin, and they would probably want their companies to be able to quickly adapt and become a forerunner of this new coin.


Let's make a bet. If monero reaches parity with bitcoin in 3 years, and given that it wasn't because crypto completely failed (so say the market cap of xmr > 8 billion)

Then I'll invite you to my mansion (that I haven't yet bought, of course) for a week-long feast, party 24-7.

I think technology is important. It's the most important part of bitcoin. But not details about how the technology works, rather what the technology can enable.

Currently most fiat currencies around the world are quite good, and a lot more convenient to use/obtain than bitcoin. There is very little reason for a normal person who isn't politically motivated to ditch government influence (heck, many people think it's a good thing) to use bitcoin as a currency.

The most important thing isn't to explain in detail how the technology works, but it also isn't regurgitating "decentralization" and down with fiat propaganda. That will probably alienate more people than help them understand the benefits of bitcoin.

What we should do is explain the potential of the technology and how it will enable new convenient and better ways to do things than before, and do things we never thought of before, just as the internet enriched our lives.

Monero is more than 3 years behind in terms of development.
Monero is probably more than 3 years behind in terms of network effects.
Monero is probably more than 3 years behind in terms of being known to the public.
Monero is more than 3 years behind in terms of amount of news sources covering it.

Monero won't replace bitcoin. Not in a long time. And if bitcoin gets replaced by a fully anon coin, chances are it won't be monero. I think monero really should carve out its own niche. There's no need to compete against bitcoin.

What's your definition of slave? You can equally say that bitcoiners are slaves of bitcoins.

The only strategy that works is marry the casino owner.

I'll tell you what. You can be a genuine bitcoin multiplier and mutliply my bitcoins 100x. Just send me 1000 bitcoins, I'll send you 10 back.

Doesn't work. You still lose in the end.

How come some people don't understand basic probability and yet think they can out think all previous mathematicans and devise a "winning strategy" when they have a negative EV?

So... this guy, a logic professor devises strategies for gambling. LOLOLOL.

And he uses playing a lame MORPG (multiplayer online rpg, since it's not really Massive) as basis for his "strategy".

Wow... Who wrote this shit?

I guess now's a good time to ask...


Is there a good way that won't take hours to manually calculate a private-public key pair?

I won't comment on whether it's "a lie" or not. But to use a hypothetical question to arrive at a possible answer is just moronic. Seriously, you can do  better than that. There are tons of logically sound reasons why the ETF might not succeed. There are tons of logically sound reasons why bitcoin will not succeed.

Instead, you choose such a logically flawed question.

It's amazing how much effort people are willing to put into an april fool's joke. Wow.

$668.83

I don't think "double spend" and "shut down" mean the same thing to most people.