Fifteen Million Merits

[Anonymoose33]

Black Mirror
Season 1 Episode 2
Fifteen Million Merits

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tMXKQdc5ZM

[goregrind]

Great movie series! Highly recommended.

Bitcoin is just a currency and its not bitcoin's indent or mission to solve this kind of problems.
We need a coordinated effort as a civilization to watch over this things and make sure they won't happen.
Think about the fact that you're paying more right now to make use of bitcointalk, paying just 1 sat will actually be a good thing.

[Anonymoose33]

Very good point.  The episode just depicts it in such a doom and gloom, yet completely plausible manner.  Regardless of which road Bitcoin ends up going down I'm in it for the long haul, just thought the show was eerily similar.

[yayayo]

I don't think there's a problem with individual actors offering services for micropayments. The free market will decide through competition if such models will be successful. So I don't expect excesses there.

From my point of view the essential question of Bitcoin's future is whether it will remain fully decentralized or if corporate / government actors will try to overtake it by influencing the development process or attacking its fungibility.

ya.ya.yo!