Think of it as gambling on a game with unknown and unknowable odds.
Bitcoin is a revolution not a ponzi, [ ... ] Bitcoin remains a binary invention.
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LOL, Fair enough, it is a gamble, but I will intuit the odds, in my view this invention is as profound as the wheal the plow or the printing press.
On the point of criminals, throughout history stored wealth has been plundered, that what people do when there is inequality, it is how the nation state was birthed eventually the groups come up with rules to prevent the plunder, and create an equilibrium. The last global thinker on the topic to have an impact was John Maynard Keynes. The institutions he worked to put in place have now all been eroded and the plunder is resuming at an exponential pace, today it more unfair and as vial as it was during the dark ages when you look at it on a global scale.
Chriptocurancy for the first time in history gives people a way to store wealth without the treat of plunder (provided they are relatively computer and scam savvy ) this will change how we interact, killing someone to gain control of their stored wealth does not enrich one, by design it benefits the whole instead. This is new! The institutions that exist(ed) are based on a premise that is now obsolete, they exist to serving the elite <1% and are going to become obsolete if they don’t evolve, non violent and corporative Regime change is coming, it needs to evolve organically to prevent abuse.