Is Bitcoin a religion? Satoshi is our God?

[felipelalli]

Why Bitcoin is a religion for you? What Satoshi represents to you?

[Wilikon]

Bitcoin is my religion because there is a pyramid and an all seeing eye at its capstone hidden withing its code...

[viboracecata]

Bitcoin is just one tool, but not religion, anyway with this powerful tool, we can change the world.

Even though, the way to spread it looks like religion.

[Swordsoffreedom]

I wonder what ever happened to the Church of Satoshi thread
But for all you believers

Our Satoshi, who art in blockchain,
Encrypted be thy name
Thy transactions come
Thy will be done on ASICS
As it is on Github.
Give us this day our daily mining reward,
And forgive our zero-conf double-spends
As we forgive them that double-spend against us.
And lead us not into alt-chains
But deliver us from Ripple
For thine is the mining rig,
The hashing power, and the block reward,
For ever and ever
Amen.

[AU]

Satoshi sacrificed himself for the prosperity of the COIN. Isn't is obvious

[knight22]

Is Bitcoin a religion? Satoshi is our God?

No.

[Carlton Banks]

Capitalist, industrialised society is kind of a religion replacement: the priesthood alone know how and why the machine keeps ticking over, and everyone else just believes it when they say so, as the results are demonstrative that it's all working (operative word in the last sentence: "believes"). Not so different from religion IMO, except that I suspect we have a much lower rate of non-believers (the heretics!) than religious society would have.

I guess this worldwide economic malaise is kind of like when Martin Luther came back from Rome, complaining that the priesthood are all corrupt, and with all the rational non-believers/heretics that were saying the same after all that renaissance stuff. So, Satoshi is more of a modern day Da Vinci than cyber-prophet, and I guess we're in a renaissance replay. And we're the neo-heretics.

[wachtwoord]

If anything he would be a prophet

[Carlton Banks]

If anything he would be a prophet

And he's already ascended to heaven! I think we're due a couple of martyrs.... not sure Dread Pirate Roberts counts, but he's definitely a modern legend of sorts. Were martyrs always so difficult to like? 

[qwk]

Satoshi is no god. His little software was not perfect from the beginning. He did not come down from the mountain with 10 golden rules engraved in stone for no one to question.

[Lethn]

My joking about it aside I don't think it is a religion at all, it's just a really, really, really, really fucking awesome tool that works so well at what it does it makes you stay away entirely from an oppressive and corrupt financial regime that we've been used to for so long so we all sound a bit mad when we talk about it. I know I hardly have anything to do with 'ordinary' banking anymore, once I can buy food and pay utility bills in Bitcoin I'm done with them, we've been enslaved to the ideas of debt being currency for so long we didn't know what it was like to be truly financially independent.

I'm not even sure I want to legitimately pay my governments' taxes anymore just to make countries who don't adopt Bitcoin bleed but that has a lot of risk to it unfortunately and you'd have to accept that you'd end up in jail for quite some time and I have things I want to do.

[Killa]

He is no god his software is full of bugs, he could be a prophet though.

[MAbtc]

Why Bitcoin is a religion for you? What Satoshi represents to you?

Hehe, looking around this forum a bit, there is no doubt that bitcoin is indeed a religion for many people here. Not me -- I like the idea, and I hope it takes off, but mostly I am here to pad my nest egg. 

[imrer]

What would bitcoin be a religion? It's just a great idea coming from (probably) one smart guy.

[inform]

Yes

 

Satoshi is good guy in my eye for me i respect him!

[Carlton Banks]

What would bitcoin be a religion? It's just a great idea coming from (probably) one smart guy.

Religion, no. Belief system? Necessarily, yes. Satoshi was the original Bitcoin believer, he believed he had created a software design that constituted an abstract form of money. Once the first few additional miners and developers became convinced by his belief, they too became believers. And to say they were 100% rational in joining in isn't true, and can't be. For that to be so, they'd have to be capable of foreseeing all the potential problems right from the start, which is clearly impossible. But they saw enough potential benefits in the innovation to take a leap of faith. And if some critical insurmountable flaw in the plan emerges in the future? Well, it was never money in the first place, we all submitted to blind faith in something that we believed we truly comprehended, but in fact did not.

[Mitchell]

Our Satoshi, who art in blockchain,
Encrypted be thy name
Thy transactions come
Thy will be done on ASICS
As it is on Github.
Give us this day our daily mining reward,
And forgive our zero-conf double-spends
As we forgive them that double-spend against us.
And lead us not into alt-chains
But deliver us from Ripple
For thine is the mining rig,
The hashing power, and the block reward,
For ever and ever
Amen.

This is awesome.

[AceWallen]

yes, bitcoin is my religion and Satoshi is my god. 

[yogi]

Yes, bitcoin is a religion because it's founded on a belief. The belief that an individual attacker will never have more than fifty percent of the networks processing power.

[theonewhowaskazu]

Satoshi is no god. His little software was not perfect from the beginning. He did not come down from the mountain with 10 golden rules engraved in stone for no one to question.

His software wasn't perfect, but you have to admit, the core rules behind the protocol were amazingly insightful from the beginning.