[ANN] Where to send when asked why BTC has value, and why it hasn't died yet

[Rassah]

Whipped this thing up during the Bitcoin Conference 2013, somewhere between the Tradehill party and just now:

http://www.whyisntbitcoinworthless.com

[alxs]

Awesome job!

[solex]

Whipped this thing up during the Bitcoin Conference 2013, somewhere between the party at The Loft and just now:

http://www.whyisntbitcoinworthless.com

1. Because it has been proven to work in facilitating the transfer of products
2. Because it has worked for 4.5 years, so it is building up a history of having worked reliably
3. Because it is working right now, so there is a legitimate expectation that it will continue to work

[Melbustus]

Excellent...

Another one:
1) You can transact on the internet without exposing any sensitive information whatsoever.


BTW, I like that you have colored-coins in there. One of my takeaways from the conference is that a lot of people really are viewing bitcoin as a new and fundamental protocol layer on top of which other protocols and services will be built. Colored coins and multisig underpin a lot of that potential.

[coinmama]

well put

[justusranvier]

It came out looking great.

[Cubic Earth]

A great synopsis of many of the ideas presented and defended at the conference.

Thanks Rassah

[alkuluku]

Good idea, but at the moment it's mostly gibberish for the common people. If the goal is to convince the Average Joe, there should be more simple facts without technical terms. Sadly this might be quite difficult to achieve.

[wumpus]

Good site,

Good idea, but at the moment it's mostly gibberish for the common people. If the goal is to convince the Average Joe, there should be more simple facts without technical terms. Sadly this might be quite difficult to achieve.

Convincing the non-average Joe is important too (e.g. educated people that just don't know anything about bitcoin).

[Rassah]

Good idea, but at the moment it's mostly gibberish for the common people. If the goal is to convince the Average Joe, there should be more simple facts without technical terms. Sadly this might be quite difficult to achieve.

I'm hoping they might follow the citation links. But yeah, it's a tad technical. The idea is to answer questions like, "It's only worth anything because people think it's worth anything, but there's nothing actually backing it." This list is why Bitcoin itself would be worth something, and be a huge contribution to the world, even if it had no value as money.

[jtibble]

The one that just says "Cyprus" isn't very useful if you haven't been following world financial/political news, like the people I want to send this link to. Could you expand that one, and add some explanation?  Thanks

[John (John K.)]

Need more data inside. 

[K1773R]

Whipped this thing up during the Bitcoin Conference 2013, somewhere between the Tradehill party and just now:

http://www.whyisntbitcoinworthless.com

haha good one, now i can send this to all the newbies

[No_2]

Good and concise.

[dexX7]

Woah, very nice! +1

Suggestion: smoother font

[Este Nuno]

Great Job.

[leemar]

Nice work.

[Ryland R. Taylor-Almanza]

Nice! Reminds me of http://whatthefuckhasobamadonesofar.com/ (Not making any comments on my opinion of obama, and would rather keep this thread on-topic. Just think the concept of the sites are cool.)

[Lauda]

Awesome website!!!

[aigeezer]

Very nice. I tried to break it of course. One time it seemed to be very robust and willing to go forever (Cyprus * 8 at least). Another time it just stopped responding with no text in the window - not sure why.

Suggestion: put in a FB "like" or equivalent hooks to make it easy to get the word out to the Great Unwashed.