Soon bitcoin will see a surge not as an investment, but as a gift and means of employment. But for this we will need to see a shift in attitude from the bitcoin community.
Currently it is a community of hoarders, snarky posters and troll champions... With a sprinkle of good will scattered through the arguing and suggestions to "hold onto coins for dear life!".
What we need to see is a community of entrepreneurs. People that know how to SPEND bitcoins wisely, so that they can GET bitcoins back. As well as people willing to do things for the greater good of the market.
People watch Bitcoins like stocks, thinking that there are small pockets of people buying and selling. That is true, but that is not how you should look at it. You should look at bitcoin as a commodity that the world has yet to fully understand that will continue to surge and grow if you water it.
More bitcoins need to be spent on programs helping people understand bitcoin financing. More bitcoins need to be used creating charities. More Bitcoins need to be used paying people for work.
Sure you can say "This stuff already happens". My point is "It doesn't happen enough".
Bitcoin is a community of greed. People that want more for themselves. When it needs to be a community of people that want more for the coin.
If South Park episode made an episode about bitcoin, would Kyle and Stan be the Bitcoiners? Or would the Bitcoin supporter more likely fit a character like Cartman or the fat guy with the wrist brace on the WoW episode.
The future of bitcoin is Liberal policy. Gift, Give, Support and Build.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=321086.0https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=321070.0I had wondered about people hoarding bitcoins, and thought it isn't all that
good for the bitcoin economy.
Hoarding, scrooging, miserliness, are not good for an economy that is supposedly booming,
as bitcoin has been doing.
I like the concept of people giving or gifting, and it is especially easier if/when you
are getting huge increases as some have been getting from bitcoins.
But if it is booming and you are all being hoarders and misers, then I cannot think of hardly anything that is more
a turnoff than that.(though I know there is other things)
Consider the poor man who comes to bitcoin, who cannot find the money in their real life,
to invest, so they ask for bitcoins/money to get started or help to finance?
I know they get judged.
If people do give anything to them, is it sufficient to enable them to get started at least somewhat?
or is it insufficient? Do people continually tell them that they can do this or that, knowing that
in fact those are dead end pathways? Or that those ways fail to pay enough, and even if they get a good percentage increase, by that time, the bitcoin boom is over, and they miss out, but maybe make a small amount when others got rich.
Or, do you expect them to have the fully justified plans, backed by the spotless financial credit
ratings; before you ever consider 'loaning' them anything at all(god forbid you even think of giving even a satoshi)
I will cut this short.
If bitcoin is booming, then spend accordingly, and share the wealth.
But I believe in what jesus said: 'Give to those who ask of you', so if someone asks something of you,
then give.(jesus tends towards reproaching the one who will not give, which is contrary or opposite to how people are in the world often)..
Rather than judge people who ask, why do you not look at yourself, and ask yourself why you will not give? Are you really as justified as you think?(if you think so, then perhaps you read a different holy bible than me)
Anyways, I like the idea of gifting or giving, and spend like its a boom.
People will be drawn to a boom, but shrink away from misers and scroogers and hoarders.
My two cents.
Nice post.
