Can Bitcoin be considered a Religion?

[Abiky]

Considering how many Bitcoin believers (maximalists) there are, with their specific beliefs of how cryptocurrency should behave, it's becoming more evident that Bitcoin is a religion. After all, this popular movement of decentralized finance has impacted our lives one way or the other. The world has its eyes on the direction of Bitcoin as a digital currency which determines the path forward of Blockchain technology.

According to Google, the term "Religion" means the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods. This becomes true especially when many Bitcoin followers believe that Satoshi is some sort of "god". Hence, if Satoshi would reveal himself to the public, many people will follow him.

Nonetheless, what are your thoughts about this?

[Janation]

Considering how many Bitcoin believers (maximalists) there are, with their specific beliefs of how cryptocurrency should behave, it's becoming more evident that Bitcoin is a religion. After all, this popular movement of decentralized finance has impacted our lives one way or the other. The world has its eyes on the direction of Bitcoin as a digital currency which determines the path forward of Blockchain technology.

According to Google, the term "Religion" means the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods. This becomes true especially when many Bitcoin followers believe that Satoshi is some sort of "god". Hence, if Satoshi would reveal himself to the public, many people will follow him.

Nonetheless, what are your thoughts about this?

I don't see Satoshi Nakamoto as a "GOD".

He is a genius, one or group of great minds that created a great technology that would be used for a very long time. It also opened a lot of doors for technology to improve. We may be an organization, a community with the same belief about Bitcoin but we don't worship it nor Satoshi Nakamoto so I don't think we can call Bitcoin a religion. You may call it a currency that connects people but it is not something that we worship, and BTW, if that will happen with Satoshi, I guess he will never ever introduce himself.

[Vod]

I obviously take offence to the insinuation people have a different personal vod.  

On topic - religion spreads by brainwashing.  Bitcoin has not been around long enough to be generational or a fable.

[TimeBits]

Considering how many Bitcoin believers (maximalists) there are, with their specific beliefs of how cryptocurrency should behave, it's becoming more evident that Bitcoin is a religion. After all, this popular movement of decentralized finance has impacted our lives one way or the other. The world has its eyes on the direction of Bitcoin as a digital currency which determines the path forward of Blockchain technology.

According to Google, the term "Religion" means the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods. This becomes true especially when many Bitcoin followers believe that Satoshi is some sort of "god". Hence, if Satoshi would reveal himself to the public, many people will follow him.

Nonetheless, what are your thoughts about this?

Just because someone is a celebrity does it make them a religion?

Religion no, Blockchain replacing Governments yes.

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YES WE OUR A RELIGION NOW

[jake zyrus]

Religion is like a belief in spiritual aspect. Somehow affects people's tradition and culture. And I think its far from considering bitcoin as a religion. Especially we don't worship Satoshi. Satoshi is a human, not a God. He's no different from us. The thing that make him kinda special is he is the proponent of bitcoin but that doesn't mean he can be considered as a god or something. This isn't a cult or something...

[Yakamoto]

Considering how many Bitcoin believers (maximalists) there are, with their specific beliefs of how cryptocurrency should behave, it's becoming more evident that Bitcoin is a religion. After all, this popular movement of decentralized finance has impacted our lives one way or the other. The world has its eyes on the direction of Bitcoin as a digital currency which determines the path forward of Blockchain technology.

According to Google, the term "Religion" means the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods. This becomes true especially when many Bitcoin followers believe that Satoshi is some sort of "god". Hence, if Satoshi would reveal himself to the public, many people will follow him.

Nonetheless, what are your thoughts about this?

I don't think that Bitcoin (and the community surrounding it) is a religion, however, it could be considered a cult when it comes to some of the more "devoted" users. I don't think that the community at large cares too much about Satoshi himself, at least in the sense that they would follow him in a cult of personality. I personally don't really care about the man behind Bitcoin, I'm glad that he made it, but it's nothing that I would consider following a person over. It's a great creation that requires a ton of technical expertise, but you don't really see a cult for someone like Einstein, do you?

The only thing I could agree with you about is that Bitcoin is a cult for some, but for the majority of people and users within the community, it isn't important enough in their lives.

[rijaljun]

It can't be a religion, however it can be just a belief toward technology. But, If Bitcoin value can be controlled by few party then it is a bad belief for anyone. It's getting worse if people start worshiping Satoshi and consider him as a God, Satoshi just a "thing" with a great mind to invent Bitcoin which aims to create much changes to life.

[Afnan_faizah]

Considering how many Bitcoin believers (maximalists) there are, with their specific beliefs of how cryptocurrency should behave, it's becoming more evident that Bitcoin is a religion. After all, this popular movement of decentralized finance has impacted our lives one way or the other. The world has its eyes on the direction of Bitcoin as a digital currency which determines the path forward of Blockchain technology.

According to Google, the term "Religion" means the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods. This becomes true especially when many Bitcoin followers believe that Satoshi is some sort of "god". Hence, if Satoshi would reveal himself to the public, many people will follow him.

Nonetheless, what are your thoughts about this?

I think that is a wrong perception. We want earn more bitcoin because it is money. Sathosi don't have any super power that can control the world, he just a bitcoin creator. The stronggest asset that have growing value is gold. Who create the gold? That is the only one God. Bitcoin is not a religion but it is a currency which unite many people in different country here.

[Lionel]

@Abiky i am curious to know what you think about stocks then.
Are they religion to you?

If Bitcoin price is supposedly driven by mass psychology ,  do you think stock prices aren't ?

And what about real estates, one of the most traditional and "religious" investment?

[Erickan]

I do not believe in any religion that is currently in the world, religion makes people weak and tends to rely on gods. Religion spreads faith in gods, patriarchs, buddhas .. And you will be saved, that is stupid and unscientific.
I only believe in the real values of life that are ahead of us, not in a distant perspective that a certain religion draws. So I like bitcoin just because it's a breakthrough technology, I'm not blind and not a bitcoin fanatic if it's not valuable for life.

[CryptoBry]

Believing in something or an idea is not equivalent to a religion. Do you believe in yourself? Does it mean you are therefore a religion? Granting that when you believe in something, there can be some similarities when you are a member of a certain religion but those similarities ends in there. and not unless you are the one running your own religion, here in Bitcoin you have the chance of making some money because Bitcoin can also be considered as an investment and that is something you can never found in any religion.

This kind of shallow definition of a religion can make any membership to any club, organization, association or any group for that matter also a religion. Religion is much more than that as it involves spiritual concepts and ideas...are we spiritual here in Bitcoin? Nah, I don't think so.

[sopanbmp]

I think you are an atheism  , is not that simple! Relegion is pretty sensitive to be discussed. your imajination is to excessive. this is just a example : if someone give me 10$ million, will I believe that he was a God? of course not. Bitcoin or the cryptocurrencies are enough to only changed the world financial system by the Goverments, it mean bitcoin is only money and the religion it's only a path to guid the peoples to make a good things.

[Ailmand]

Considering how many Bitcoin believers (maximalists) there are, with their specific beliefs of how cryptocurrency should behave, it's becoming more evident that Bitcoin is a religion. After all, this popular movement of decentralized finance has impacted our lives one way or the other. The world has its eyes on the direction of Bitcoin as a digital currency which determines the path forward of Blockchain technology.

According to Google, the term "Religion" means the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods. This becomes true especially when many Bitcoin followers believe that Satoshi is some sort of "god". Hence, if Satoshi would reveal himself to the public, many people will follow him.

Nonetheless, what are your thoughts about this?

I believe that Satoshi Nakamoto is a genius for creating bitcoin, but never had considered him as "GOD." People believed in cryptocurrency because of the convenience, financial freedom, and earning potential. Would be absurd if there will be a bitcoin cult or religion. 

[newbie0506]

Considering how many Bitcoin believers (maximalists) there are, with their specific beliefs of how cryptocurrency should behave, it's becoming more evident that Bitcoin is a religion. After all, this popular movement of decentralized finance has impacted our lives one way or the other. The world has its eyes on the direction of Bitcoin as a digital currency which determines the path forward of Blockchain technology.

According to Google, the term "Religion" means the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods. This becomes true especially when many Bitcoin followers believe that Satoshi is some sort of "god". Hence, if Satoshi would reveal himself to the public, many people will follow him.

Nonetheless, what are your thoughts about this?

I don't see it as a sort of religion. What I see is that it's a BIG COMMUNITY. According to Mr. G:

• a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common.
• a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals.

Isn't it?

[traderethereum]

Bitcoin is not a religion, but bitcoin is something about a way for people to create a new way to make money.
That will be a mistake that makes Satoshi Nakamoto as a "GOD" because Satoshi is a human who created bitcoin and makes bitcoin to be known as a new electronic money system.
Bitcoin itself helps people to solve their financial problem, and many people already prove about that.

[The Cryptovator]

According to Google, the term "Religion" means the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods.

The reason is why we wouldn't consider bitcoin as a "Religion", there is no "superhuman controlling power" of bitcoin. Bitcoin is a power, but who is controlling? Control isn't native behavior of bitcoin and that's why called it decentralized system. Satoshi just create it, he never control it or anyone else. Bitcoin is a power by itself, there is no controller and based on this calculation we can call bitcoin a "community" instead of "Religion". Community is appropriate for bitcoin and day by day its expanding.

[denzkilim]

Considering how many Bitcoin believers (maximalists) there are, with their specific beliefs of how cryptocurrency should behave, it's becoming more evident that Bitcoin is a religion. After all, this popular movement of decentralized finance has impacted our lives one way or the other. The world has its eyes on the direction of Bitcoin as a digital currency which determines the path forward of Blockchain technology.

According to Google, the term "Religion" means the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods. This becomes true especially when many Bitcoin followers believe that Satoshi is some sort of "god". Hence, if Satoshi would reveal himself to the public, many people will follow him.

Nonetheless, what are your thoughts about this?

I don't see Satoshi Nakamoto as a "GOD".

He is a genius, one or group of great minds that created a great technology that would be used for a very long time. It also opened a lot of doors for technology to improve. We may be an organization, a community with the same belief about Bitcoin but we don't worship it nor Satoshi Nakamoto so I don't think we can call Bitcoin a religion. You may call it a currency that connects people but it is not something that we worship, and BTW, if that will happen with Satoshi, I guess he will never ever introduce himself.

I can't imagine what does the OP is thinking and why he is connecting religions to Bitcoin, I think he runs out of topic to post on the forum. Believing in Satoshi Nakamoto's creations does not mean you are worshipping him or anything else and it only needs some common sense to understand it, for example, if a person believes in what his/her boss said and those under the boss believes it does not mean that they are worshipping their boss, they are only obeying him in the term of believinbg if you get what I mean.

[Haunebu]

I can't imagine what does the OP is thinking and why he is connecting religions to Bitcoin, I think he runs out of topic to post on the forum. Believing in Satoshi Nakamoto's creations does not mean you are worshipping him or anything else and it only needs some common sense to understand it, for example, if a person believes in what his/her boss said and those under the boss believes it does not mean that they are worshipping their boss, they are only obeying him in the term of believinbg if you get what I mean.

He basically stated his opinion and asked us what we thought about it which in no way means that he is running out of topics. However, I do not agree with his opinion at all since Satoshi is a human being and is no God.

So many people have already treated certain people as Gods which is completely nonsensical and we need to get rid of this bullshit tradition asap.

[talkbitcoin]

Considering how many Bitcoin believers (maximalists) there are, with their specific beliefs of how cryptocurrency should behave, it's becoming more evident that Bitcoin is a religion.

that is the weirdest comment i have ever read in this forum!
when you click the buttons on your keyboard you believe that they do a certain action. for example when you click the key with letter "c" on it you expect it to type "c" on your screen. that doesn't mean computer is a religion because you expect it to behave in a certain way and doesn't make you a computer maximalist!

bitcoin is the same, it is expected to behave in a certain way (decentralized, no censorship, boarderless, immutable,...) that doesn't change anything about whoever wants these things to remain the same.

[Kakmakr]

Considering how many Bitcoin believers (maximalists) there are, with their specific beliefs of how cryptocurrency should behave, it's becoming more evident that Bitcoin is a religion. After all, this popular movement of decentralized finance has impacted our lives one way or the other. The world has its eyes on the direction of Bitcoin as a digital currency which determines the path forward of Blockchain technology.

According to Google, the term "Religion" means the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods. This becomes true especially when many Bitcoin followers believe that Satoshi is some sort of "god". Hence, if Satoshi would reveal himself to the public, many people will follow him.

Nonetheless, what are your thoughts about this?

In your statement you refer to people worshipping Satoshi Nakamoto, which is in my opinion wrong. The people are rather supporting the technology that Satoshi created, which is key to what is going on with this Bitcoin community.

Satoshi Nakamoto wanted to add an alternative payment option other than fiat currencies and centralized payment options that cannot be manipulated or used for political agendas and also corrupting the global financial system. <Example : Printing money like toilet paper and/or out of thin air like fractional reserve banking practices.>  

People wanted a better payment system without the corruption and with total transparency.