What persuaded you to buy bitcoin?

[michiganmushrooms]

Be honest!

[franky1]

the fact that unless im silly enough to give out my private key to some third party.. this will never happen to me:
http://rt.com/business/jpmorgan-data-loss-cyber-attack-752/

[bryant.coleman]

First heard about Bitcoin while reading about Wikileaks donation in 2011. At that time I didn't took it that seriously (for which I am still cursing myself). Then I again read a few articles on December 2012. I told to myself, well... this one seems like some HYIP... and seems to be taking off. But even then I didn't had the courage to invest some "real" money in to it. I was closely following the exchange rates though.... However, the exchange rate began rising rapidly in January 2013. I had enough... quickly bought a dozen coins from localbitcoins. Cost me $15 a coin.

[redwoods]

I discovered the hilarious Max Keiser in February 2013, his passion and knowledge persuaded me to buy 4 coins in March/April 2013, if i'd heard of him sooner I'd have bought a lot more.

[michiganmushrooms]

Then vote ethos!

[Aswan]

Ethos for me

[shawshankinmate37927]

Logos, because I take into consideration the attributes that money is required to have in a logical manner and have concluded that Bitcoin is the closest thing to perfect money the world has seen to date.  Those attributes being scarcity, divisibility, portability, fungibility, durability, system integrity, etc.

[worldtreasurefinders]

Pathos, because I'm a long time numismatist/coin collector and have a passion for the history and progression of money!

[redwoods]

I dont understand the options to be frank...

Pathos - A quality, as of an experience or a work of art, that arouses feelings of pity, sympathy, tenderness, or sorrow.

Ethos - The disposition, character, or fundamental values peculiar to a specific person, people, culture, or movement

Logos -

Philosophy
a. In pre-Socratic philosophy, the principle governing the cosmos, the source of this principle, or human reasoning about the cosmos.
b. Among the Sophists, the topics of rational argument or the arguments themselves.
c. In Stoicism, the active, material, rational principle of the cosmos; nous. Identified with God, it is the source of all activity and generation and is the power of reason residing in the human soul.
2. Judaism
a. In biblical Judaism, the word of God, which itself has creative power and is God's medium of communication with the human race.
b. In Hellenistic Judaism, a hypostasis associated with divine wisdom.
3. Christianity In Saint John's Gospel, especially in the prologue (1:1-14), the creative word of God, which is itself God and incarnate in Jesus. Also called Word.

(Philosophy) Philosophy reason or the rational principle expressed in words and things, argument, or justification; esp personified as the source of order in the universe
[from Greek: word, reason, discourse, from legein to speak]


(Christian Religious Writings / Theology) Christian theol the divine Word; the second person of the Trinity incarnate in the person of Jesus

[salsacz]

Logoos 

[Mylon]

I dont understand the options to be frank...

Pathos - A quality, as of an experience or a work of art, that arouses feelings of pity, sympathy, tenderness, or sorrow.

Ethos - The disposition, character, or fundamental values peculiar to a specific person, people, culture, or movement

Logos -

Philosophy
a. In pre-Socratic philosophy, the principle governing the cosmos, the source of this principle, or human reasoning about the cosmos.
b. Among the Sophists, the topics of rational argument or the arguments themselves.
c. In Stoicism, the active, material, rational principle of the cosmos; nous. Identified with God, it is the source of all activity and generation and is the power of reason residing in the human soul.
2. Judaism
a. In biblical Judaism, the word of God, which itself has creative power and is God's medium of communication with the human race.
b. In Hellenistic Judaism, a hypostasis associated with divine wisdom.
3. Christianity In Saint John's Gospel, especially in the prologue (1:1-14), the creative word of God, which is itself God and incarnate in Jesus. Also called Word.

(Philosophy) Philosophy reason or the rational principle expressed in words and things, argument, or justification; esp personified as the source of order in the universe
[from Greek: word, reason, discourse, from legein to speak]


(Christian Religious Writings / Theology) Christian theol the divine Word; the second person of the Trinity incarnate in the person of Jesus

Yea I think I figured it based on this thread...

Pathos: the ideology
Ethos: the politics
Logos: the network

Which forces me onto logos, as that is how I discovered it, never bought any though. Pathos is running a really close second though. (they just had to explain to me that our money was broken, and that they invented a better system)

[bitkoinz]

OK fine I'll say it....silk road

[michiganmushrooms]

I dont understand the options to be frank...

I was basing the pole on the traditional rhetorical modes of persuasion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modes_of_persuasion

I'm just trying to get a sense of what's driving this speculation...

[Ecurb123]

I've never directly bought bitcoin and I don't know what these three answers even are.

[xerafoo]

I heard a news story back in 2011 about them. I read the white paper on them.

I thought they had some potential so I told a buddy of mine who likes to invest in guns and gold and some stocks.

He laughed at me when I told him to put $500 bucks into them.

I did. Bought $500 bucks worth (about 35) and they quickly. Went down to $7 bucks. I thought long and hard about buying more but never did (snap!) because they stayed at $7 for a long time.

Now I text me buddy all the time to rub it in!!

[jongameson]

silk road