Bitcoins does not serve any benefits to the human kind.

[Bitatoes]

If successful, you'll influence laws and society for decades. You'll probably influence some people for their entire lives, if you can possibly be horrible enough to stain them emotionally. If you are a really decent rapist, then your genetic influence will probably last quite a while, especially if you rape in states that don't like abortions, even in cases of rape by mass murderers. If you can murder or rape selectively, such as selecting people who match some phenotype or genotype, then your genetic influence would be much, much greater.

yeah, but what is remembered is more a reflection of those remembering than it is of those remembered. In other words, it's a sign of how the world is now that we think back farthest on our murdering/raping ancestors and our more evolved future generations may reflect back on things like massive economic advances brought via something uniquely ours so far throughout history, technology. The times they are a changin!

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[buckeye]

doctors save lives, firemen make our homes safe, astronauts explore the outer space etc...

bitcoins do nothing except pushing numbers around to make the early adaptors rich.

Your first premise is generally true, but what about your second premise?

bitcoins do nothing except pushing numbers around to make the early adaptors rich.

I know it probably seems that way to you, but there are always new adapters who come along and confound the earlier adapters.

You just have to figure out how to become a new adapter able to confound the earlier adapters.

[Bazil]

Don't feed the troll?  Look at the comments he's been leaving

[WilliamJohnson]

As you probably know it, Bitcoin does have a few benefits (independence from a central organization, no inflation spiral, low transaction fees, accounts that can't be frozen, allows anonymity...)
"Pushing numbers to make XXXX rich" is unfortunately common with most currencies. Think of the financial industry.

Now, about the early "adapters" getting rich...
http://scalepalace.com/images/amw13_adapter.jpg
I, for one, welcome our new electric overlords.

[rahl]

doctors save lives, firemen make our homes safe, astronauts explore the outer space etc...

bitcoins do nothing except pushing numbers around to make the early adaptors rich.

And you think there would be doctors and firemen without money? There wouldn't because being able to do price comparisons in a universal medium of exchange is very beneficial to transmitting information in the market, which is the cause of signals telling people that they can actually make a decent living from being doctors and firemen.

Government money is constantly manipulated which means that it does a very poor job of transmitting information, which is why we have recessions and in almost every area either too few or too many doctors and firemen and resources are being wasted. Bitcoin will do a much better job at this if it becomes universal thus providing enormous benefit to mankind.

As for astronauts I don't think it makes any kind of economic or entrepreneurial sense to send people into deep space at this stage. Researching colonization and sending people into low orbit for satellite maintinence and tourism maybe. But the space shuttle is a fucking disaster in waste of resources at something barley ever worked and the entire space program is just a government circus.