I personally don't want Bitcoin to grow in India. I don't want Indians converting money into Bitcoin. Simple!
I don´t want to be too inquisitive and too personal, but may I ask why? I am always interested in rationales.
Your signature "Resisting Bitcoin for fools! " is for me cryptic as well.
Segeln,
I'm glad you noticed my signature. Thanks for asking me such an important question of life. I'm no scholar but I've been trying to understand Bitcoin since last 8 months 20 days. I was injected into Bitcoin by only one article and passion growing since then. As Indian, I've my own reason to resist Bitcoin. Pardon me, I'm wrong.
1. 57.9% of Bitcoin(
Branded Gold) are already mined by 'developed' countries which includes- USA, Canada, EU, China etc. My personal estimation says, currently Indian's at max holds not more than 20,000 Bitcoin (
i.e not more than 1%). If today, Indian's dive themselves into mining full fledged then also we won't be able to get hold on more than 4-5% of total coins by 2140 due to very high completion and lack of sophisticated technology. Bitter fact is, I don't have right to accuse developed countries for mining Bitcoin. Problem is on our part, Bitcoin was open to everyone and it's our bad luck that we were ignorant.
2. Fact is mining initial coin is 'necessary evil' to initiate revolution and I don't mind accepting Bitcoin if 60-70% of 57.9% were in circulation. I've read some research paper which revealed the fact that, majority of the Bitcoin are in sink account. That makes me uneasy here. I seen something suspicious coming as those sink account are inactive since March, 2013. They accumulated coins and became inactive as they knew, what Bitcoin is and what future lies ahead. I have a stupid thought that Bitcoin has opened new front in countries interested in 'economic imperialism.'
3. Bitcoin is branded gold which anyone can create. Agree? Bitcoin like gold can be created by anyone. Considering myself as India, it doesn't makes any sense to me going crazy for Bitcoin. We've seen prize surge from 300-1200 due to Chinese interest. Now, resistance is at 650. If Indian's go crazy about Bitcoin, then its price will reach a new level and India have 50-60% parallel economy and loads of money in overseas account. Lets consider, Indian's goes crazy about Bitcoin, then also we won't be able to get hold on large number of Bitcoins due to capital control. Indians by creating demand can only increase its price to new high thereby injecting another push to Bitcoin.
4. Bitcoin price is $700. Consider, there are 1000 Bitcoin in total and India has maximum $8000 to spend on virtual currency. If Indian demand Bitcoin and pushes its price reaches 800. Then we can get 100 Bitcoin out of 1000 Bitcoin i.e. 10% of Bitcoin. Now we've another option, to create our own virtual-currency and somehow manage to force same on Indians. They'll buy Indian virtual currency(
say Indiacoin) with those $8000 not Bitcoin then Bitcoin price will stay same at $700 dollar. Because every Indian has accepted their own virtual currency .. others interested in Indian economy will be forced to exchange Indiacoin for Bitcoin and in that way, we could get lot more than 10% Bitcoins in return.
5. Most important reason that makes me resist Bitcoin is ..ideological domination. Bitcoin is revolution of liberalization. A topic of academic debate as there is thin line between liberalization and anarchy. At one time in history people were domianted by physical force like those in slave era.. then with release of "Wealth of Nation by Adam Smith" money became a medium of domination. Now, we're living in Internet age and I think.. ideology is form of domination. We're living in age where we're sub-consciously dominated by thoughts and ideas without our knowledge. We're living in age of psywar.
We're going back to the age of Bank Notes where one bank note used to compete with another note. Welcome to age of branded currency and I think rather than accepting another brand we must create our own brand.
