Finally, a thread about one of my favorite Bitcoiners

I'm not well versed in how Bitcoin works (sad I know), so I have this question to ask before putting deep thought into the question:

How many miners must collude to completely prevent a transaction from occurring?

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Don't worry about mining; that part's covered by plenty of folks already.  I'd wait for a dip in bitcoin's value and put the cash in it.

Btw what's your YT channel?

It seems this is unavoidable however; considering our small user base (at least, compared to national currencies) compared to how much a single BTC is worth, the price is just going to get higher as more wealth is denominated not in dollars or euros or renminbi, but in Bitcoin; since the wealth isn't changing, just how it's denominated, the price of Bitcoin will always increase so long as it's favored and adopted by more people, whose wealth is also stored there.  This is just a quality of money that can't be avoided; the only way to fix it is to figure out how society can function without money, and then get people to believe it's preferable   I think the Zeitgeisters are trying this right now...

I agree; it would be great to see Bitcoin make it as a popular currency.

However, I don't believe swearing off it and never telling anyone about it will help merchants to adopt it, which is the only way to make it a currency.  This is exactly the reason why it's still a speculative vehicle, if I can be blunt.

You're very confusing; do you want Bitcoin to succeed or don't you?  I don't see any scenario in which Bitcoin "succeeds" and isn't worth a huge amount of wealth for each.  There is no technology which will fix that divide between the poor and the rich, and I'm sorry you falsely believed this could be possible.

And for the record, I'm not a freedom fighter; what does a firefighter do?

You're making assumptions; this is a grave error, and it's simple to see why.  I have met people who are under the impression you cannot purchase a fraction of a bitcoin, only the whole thing, and so we should make people aware that you don't have to buy an entire one if you're hoping to buy.

The second error is comparing something divisible like a currency to a car; I'd call this apples and oranges, but at least those are still fruit.

This is only bad if you hold a lot of wealth

Oh, yes; I am now a staunch fascist and just about ready to conquer any nation which gets in our way

Why are you boycotting Bitcoin then?  Why don't you boycott the people who impede and control trade who prevent these technologies from getting to people who don't have them?  Why do you insist we all go backwards instead?

You're silly and your argument is misdirected.  I'd tell you to go back to grade school, but that's likely the reason you think the way you do now.

You cannot escape politics; TPB is heavily entrenched in politics and is accepted by the people who partake in politics.  If you don't believe me, just ask all the people who have downloaded or even listened to an MP3 without first having paid for the right; very few of us feel guilt for this illegal act, nor do we fine ourselves for it, proving that we do not agree with our own laws.

If we don't agree with our own laws, how do we define what is and is not illegal?  Apparently, the laws we agree on via democracy are very different from the laws we agree on in reality; if we generally agree that piracy is not illegal, otherwise we should all be incarcerated and would, at this moment, willingly turn ourselves in for what we've allegedly stolen (still hasn't happened but I'll be waiting on it), then we cannot put forth that TPB is neither legal or politically accepted, because it clearly is.  Even now we've all accepted Bitcoin is perfectly legal and many of us have concluded that, even if it was made illegal in some way by the powers that be, whether the currency itself or its usages, we would still use it in the ways we choose regardless.

All that said, the writer makes an excellent point; people really need to snap out of this daze where it's assumed healthy and beneficial to let other men lead you.  People need to be aware, informed and thinking for government to work; otherwise it just devolves into a few guys calling all the shots and nobody wants another Nazi party.  Technology cannot save a person from their own sheepishness; one cannot hide from embracing reality and still expect all to be well.

That doesn't make the dollar special, that makes the dollar like every single fiat currency to have ever existed.

What makes the USD special?

Figures he'd be in the last place you'd look.

Yes, we often forget that Adolf was democratically elected; we didn't learn our lesson, but it's probably because we forgot.  The only way the Europeans can change this is by taking control over their own government; this is also true for the Americans, and everyone else in the world.  No matter what we do, if we don't make the conscious decision to take charge of our own lives, we will always drift into totalitarianism; at that point, the left and the right become indistinguishable, the beginning of the end (for that empire anyhow) finally occurs and, depending, they either own the world and self-destruct.  The two options given in your thread seem to play directly into the hands of the state, which increases their power and further pushes them into totalitarianism; this is solely because you still seek reliance on the state, as opposed to pushing away from it.

I do believe socialism is possible, but it seems to only function with a society of rational players acting in self-interest.  Socialism on the opposite end, when a lot of irrational players act in the interest of the state, leads very quickly into fascism, which isn't something I'd like to experience.  I compare the spanish anarchists, who were communist, with the USSR and those like them, who were also communist, and compare the death tolls excluding war, and it's clear which form of government is more beneficial to our survival as a species based solely on how well we can live to reproduce.

Plans can change, and they can be lied about too.  Who knows?

All right great, just making sure you weren't actually advocating for this to happen again   I've met a fair share of people who see these systems and what they've accomplished and say, "but this time it'll be better!"  I once heard a guy say, "Stalin's death count isn't even that big, and besides all those people who died were rebels anyway."  That one really hit me in the nads.

You're aware that Mao's system and leadership led to the deaths of tens of millions of his own people, yes?

Judging by your other thread, I'm not sure if you're serious

Yes; wherever would we be without sacrificing our children at the command of God?