Everyone wants Bitcoin to be the Hundredth Monkey effect

[Xenland]

I wish someone would have told me there was a name for this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundredth_monkey_effect

[herzmeister]

no remote island required though 

[cbeast]

I wish someone would have told me there was a name for this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundredth_monkey_effect

It's not really true. Bitcoin is a paradigm shift, not a simple learned skill anyway. It will take making Bitcoin very simple and secure even for monkeys to use before most people will be able to.

[beckspace]

Monkeys Use Money to GAMBLE and Buy PROSTITUTES!

OMG!! It's happening! 

[Phinnaeus Gage]

Monkeys Use Money to GAMBLE and Buy PROSTITUTES!

OMG!! It's happening! 

Big hairy deal! It'll be eons before any monkey will be voted in as Head of State, with or without a MonkeyPAC.

Seriously...no, seriously...

I wish someone would have told me there was a name for this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundredth_monkey_effect

It's not really true. Bitcoin is a paradigm shift, not a simple learned skill anyway. It will take making Bitcoin very simple and secure even for monkeys to use before most people will be able to.

In order for that paradigm shift to be accepted, you need to influence the minds that drive the current model. To do so, Bitcoin needs an IdeaVirus.

~Bruno~

[cbeast]

In order for that paradigm shift to be accepted, you need to influence the minds that drive the current model. To do so, Bitcoin needs an IdeaVirus.

They have a vaccine for that.

[Phinnaeus Gage]

In order for that paradigm shift to be accepted, you need to influence the minds that drive the current model. To do so, Bitcoin needs an IdeaVirus.

They have a vaccine for that.

Please, don't tell her that. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=78005.msg869642#msg869642

[realnowhereman]

I wish someone would have told me there was a name for this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundredth_monkey_effect

Nope.

The name for the effect we want in bitcoin is the network effect.

The hundredth monkey effect is a now-discredited report of, essentially, a psychic link between monkeys on physically separated islands.

For their to be a hundredth monkey effect with bitcoin there would have to be another planet with no means of communication with this one simultaneously implementing Bitcoin -- literally Bitcoin, not some independently created cryptocurrency.

[Phinnaeus Gage]

I wish someone would have told me there was a name for this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundredth_monkey_effect

Nope.

The name for the effect we want in bitcoin is the network effect.

The hundredth monkey effect is a now-discredited report of, essentially, a psychic link between monkeys on physically separated islands.

For their to be a hundredth monkey effect with bitcoin there would have to be another planet with no means of communication with this one simultaneously implementing Bitcoin -- literally Bitcoin, not some independently created cryptocurrency.

Excellent reply, rnm! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect