I hear all of you guys but what about the whole bullshit backstory story? The way I see it Bitcoin is an alternative to the system, the same system that has put a stranglehold on freedom.
It's exactly the same thing, should BTC become a world leader the whole world will change... but will it be for the better?
You're talking about the (assumed) evils of money. That's not what bitcoin is about - and those aren't the problems that it solves.
Look deeper.
When horses went away and the automobile took over, you'd have said that the problem of pain didn't go away - because although the buggy whip was gone and people were no longer whipping horses or stableboys, there were more people getting hit by cars. Pain everywhere, right?
But actually, the problems that were solved were bigger than that: urban disease, equality of opportunity, and a few others. These are much deeper things than some pain incidental to the real issue; which turned out to be (in retrospect) ending of the co-option of efficient (and therefore profitable) transportation by the upper class.
So look deeper.
Don't look at money: look at the value and egalitarianism inherent in the act of transaction.
Right now, Mitt Romney is more at risk of losing his Cayman Islands-sheltered wealth than we are of losing whatever bitcoin wealth we have accumulated.
I think that's very interesting.
