Hey honest bob, I understand what you're saying, but our blog is not intended to be a cold corporate faceplate. It's our sounding board, through which we comment on things we find interesting or important. Remember too that we're very dedicated community members, and we'll have opinions on things which are Bitcoin related but not necessarily directly BitInstant related. We don't intend to formally separate BitInstant from the community.
We are not really "outraged" at the MintChip thing. It's not a huge deal. We did find it disappointing and interesting, however, primarily because (as mentioned in the post) it illustrates the precise reason why Bitcoin is superior to any centrally controlled alternative: Bitcoin cannot be censored. I think this was the important lesson, and I wrote the blog post to convey it.
Thanks for this reply. I agree with what you're saying here... I guess it would by my only suggestion to divorce bitinstant from any ideologies, and just to stick with a cold corporate faceplate. I feel like bitinstant and the bitcoin community would benefit from not having our admittedly fringe ideals plastered all over the place. Why can't bitcoin, to the "outside world" if you will, just be (or just start out as) a new way to have/move/think about money? I feel like lots of people are turned off to bitcoin by all the libertarian mumbo-jumbo.
Absolutely. Describe the technology and what it can do, then let everyone decide about ideological implications for themselves. There is much more to this world, to cultural views, and to politics than the US and libertarianism.
