And of course, there's lots more of them than early adopters. I further 'umbly suggest that ease of use is a far bigger priority than having a gifted and active spokesperson.
Look at it this way. To Joe Lunchbucket, the bricks-and-mortar world is the "real" world and the virtual world is but a veil. So, he naturally relates the virtual world to the bricks-and-mortar world.
To J.L., shopping at Amazon is as easy as picking up the phone and ordering...except it's better! There's lots of dish on the product he wants to buy.
To J.L., an exciting computer game is as exciting as a Hollywood movie...only better! He himself plays one of the characters!
Consequently...to Joe Lunchbucket, a crypto wallet is like the leather thingie that we all carry around. In order for him to conclude that a cyber is "better," the crypto wallet has to be both secure and as easy to use as a "real wallet" that holds the credit cards. In the "real" world, we don't walk around with physical padlocks on our wallets. Even if doing so is as easy as remembering a three-number combo or remembering your key.
If you can solve the tough and vexing problem of making your wallet both
secure and as
easy to use as a credit card, you'll have a real contender.
Oh, one more thing. Why doesn't everyone use a counterfeit-bill detector when they go shopping? It's not like using one is hard or anything.
Your right on that account but I think in the early days you do need a spokesperson, mainly because if you dont, then people will make up their minds based on the comments. Amiir took the stage early on and his interviews/debates where always sounding like a child with his fingers in his ears, rarely replying back to questions asked of him and he instead went on his own tangent. So when the interview was finished, the comments of the well spoken, well dressed person, did outweigh those of the scruffy kid who assumed the whole world was an anarchist and could read the code. It is a bit of an exaggeration, but I am only highlighting "perception"
Then we have the internal workings....
On one hand we have miners who mine, make money and sell their coins at the market rate. If they are big enough, they can dump coins on the market, make their money, watch the price drop and then reinvest the money they made, back into buying even more coins.
A miner also does not bring development to the coin. That is not their purpose, because its all about greed for them. (Yes, I changed the scope of the word "greed" here)
On the other hand there are merchants that support the coin and many are doing so at a loss. Why, because Bitcoin can be so easily manipulated by miners. Why would merchants and even big retail chains take on a currency that could go from $1000 to $500 so easily. Merchants need to make money and without them, Bitcoin will just remain a toy bounced between the community.
http://img01.taobaocdn.com/imgextra/i1/11375778/T2gzVyXBlXXXXXXXXX_!!11375778.jpgHow many miners contribute back to the Bitcoin Developers?
Last I heard, Only Gavin was full-time and he stepped down To use the crypto currency means that there need to be merchants willing to accept the coin, (unless its only used to exchange for fiat money).
These merchants need to weigh up the risks. Sell a graphics card for $420 and make his profit to stay in business, or accept 1 Bitcoin and have its worth suddenly go down the next day to $360 and lose out on the profit and instead make a loss.
For a miner, its all about the coins and how much you can get. For a merchant its all about providing a service with a currency that enables him/her to stay in business. I also sell Airsoft and I had to stop taking Bitcoin, because I couldnt profit from a sale to purchase more stock and its only fiat currency that kept me in business. Removing Bitcoin for me was the only way I could keep going. I still keep the sign there, but thats more a token gesture to promote Bitcoin.
As you can also see from the above comments, the discussions are one sided, favoring the mining and the miners. Added to that are some small minded comments, which are now part of this "spokesperson" of a website, which is not doing Bitcoin any favors at all.
So we are doing things differently to keep development a funded project and to promote our coin to merchants who will know that what coins they take in today, will be at minimum, worth 1 cent more tomorrow. By spreading the coin to more users and disabling (not all) the individual with the capacity to steer a coin, due to the massive investment (greed) in hardware to control the coin..... and its only then the community can "work" with the coin in their business. Big companies cannot take Bitcoin yet, because its a risk to do so, due to how easily it can be manipulated by those that have the capacity to alter its value. KnC will soon have its scrypt machine out and there will be miners who will spend millions on hardware and THEY will be the ones to be wary of, because they will control the market.
Doesnt anyone wonder why China has so much influence on Bitcoin, or are they so naive to the industry and its manipulation?I read somewhere that some person sold a Porsche for Bitcoin, when it was up high. How do you think that person feels now, that his sale is now worth half. Im sure the buyer is real happy and I am also sure the person that sold the Porsche would be steering clear of Bitcoin.
Perhaps miners will one day figure out that these big private farms are the ones that are taking money out of their pockets and doing Bitcoin an injustice... Im sure there is at least one "bright" miner on this forum that has figured that out
