People actually thought bitcoin was dead because of MtGox?

[justusranvier]

It really can be, and it's why I stopped trying with some people.  I figure time will prove them wrong, and/or they will take the time to learn about it as I did. People can be so narrow minded when it comes to things they don't understand.  I have to admit, I thought bad about Bitcoin as well when I first heard about it.  At least I was willing to go into learning about it with an open mind.

The future does not belong to the defenders of the status quo. I don't want people like that buying Bitcoin - they don't deserve to be early adopters.

[Elisha]

This is one of the reasons to launch UNITYCOIN, we need to be more serious.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=489255.0

A week or two to take mtgox to respond for her problem, is very bad press for us.

Take your alt coin advertisements somewhere else... there are way too many fucking alts, why don't we establish bitcoin first

Hi Dafar

Yes we need to strengthen Bitcoin, UNITYCOIN is a system for do that !, is not a fork of Bitcoin.  Is like a meta Bitcoin, Please take the time to read the post http://www.unitycoin.net/blog/2014/02/09/unitycoin/ .

Thanks.

[Matt Y]

Yep people get scared easily today

Big exchange like Gox falling down is a big thing. 744,000 BTC stolen is also a very big thing. Who says this can't happen again with one of the other big exchanges?

This is why we need a decentralized exchange, owned by nobody.   The Mastercoin Foundation is creating the first.  And I am quite certain there are more in the pipeline.

Centralized exchanges will be a remnant of the beginning stages of Bitcoin.  

Growing pains.  Stay the course.  Much good to come.

-B-

Hi,

Counterparty has a functioning decentralized exchange as well as a number of other features. The project is only four months old, however, the development timeline has outpaced all other similar projects, such as Mastercoin. As of now the protocol is accessed via command line, however, Counterwallet will be released shortly and will allow users with little or no technical prowess to use the fully functioning features of Counterparty. Here is a link to the official announcement thread as well as the Counterparty forums.

Announcement thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=395761.0
Counterparty forums: https://forums.counterparty.co/index.php