Does Bitcoin have AIDS?

[canary]

These girls have the cure dude   http://www.reddit.com/r/GirlsGoneBitcoin

I hope they did not turn back to fiat

[M28MmickT]

Thanks op you made my day and reminded me of a song me and a pal used to like a little to much ahaha (everyone has aids) f&$* yeh!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yC7HwPh6Es   

[FandangledGizmo]

It's likely Bitcoin's volatility is the problem, though I'll only be convinced after another 6 months of this
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=920345.0

If it is the problem, the solution is already here, stable BitAssets backed by unstable crypto-currency like BitUSD. Vitalik at Ethereum is also working on a stable currency.

So relax crypto is not dying, we'll still all be crazy rich by the end of the year.

[smalltimer]

The fork discussion is pretty revealing. Consensus means nothing to these bagholders and they would love to get rid of it. I'm about to divest entirely. Altcoins are the future.

[FandangledGizmo]

The fork discussion is pretty revealing. Consensus means nothing to these bagholders and they would love to get rid of it. I'm about to divest entirely. Altcoins are the future.

Actually Bitcoin can have some future imo. I just don't think an unstable crypto-currency should be encouraged for use as a transactional currency but rather as a store of value/savings currency until it gets VERY large.

The problem is Businesses exchanging Bitcoin directly for fiat, any alt has the same problem, probably more so as they're even more volatile.

The solution is stable crypto-currencies that are backed by an unstable crypto-currency. My money is on BitAssets like BitUSD, but there's also NuBits and Ethereum is working on an inflation stable currency too.

Businesses can hold a decentralized USD and not have to worry about volatility. The holders of the backing currency get wealthier the more demand there is for the stable option.

Looking at the amount of businesses accepting crypto, the amount of purchases and amount of 2014 investment, I actually think crypto is doing fantastically - It's use is taking off big time imo. It's only the shift to stable BitCurrencies for business that is required to reverse the downtrend imo.

[smalltimer]

thread for boycott:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=921887.0

[panju1]

thread for boycott:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=921887.0

Until there are people who are ready to accept the fake bitcoins, it really doesn't make sense to have a fork.

[crazy-pilot]

High hash needs to be paid for.
Bitcoin has good hash but keeps going down because that hash needs to be paid.
When you buy gold you do not pay a constant tax to the miners after initial purchase.
Bitcoin is different. Here you pay after purchase a tax to miners of 10% of its value this year.

Can it be cured with speeding up blocktimes or does it need to fork to faster rewarddecrease?
Obviously satoshi was afraid of attackers. He did not think of a whole army of altcoins which could jump in and back it up.
He did not think of the possibility to share hash with other coins.
What sense does a mega-high hashrate make when it is this expensive and makes the coin useless to store value?
Are the fears which would make such high and expensive hashrate necessary still justified in 2015?

Here is my question:
Does Bitcoin have aids? Can it be cured? How?

Excuse me, but the relation between AIDS and Bitcoin is lost to me, I understand what your trying to say but this in a thread title plus your post does not make any sense to me.

[cyberpinoy]

High hash needs to be paid for.
Bitcoin has good hash but keeps going down because that hash needs to be paid.
When you buy gold you do not pay a constant tax to the miners after initial purchase.
Bitcoin is different. Here you pay after purchase a tax to miners of 10% of its value this year.

Can it be cured with speeding up blocktimes or does it need to fork to faster rewarddecrease?
Obviously satoshi was afraid of attackers. He did not think of a whole army of altcoins which could jump in and back it up.
He did not think of the possibility to share hash with other coins.
What sense does a mega-high hashrate make when it is this expensive and makes the coin useless to store value?
Are the fears which would make such high and expensive hashrate necessary still justified in 2015?

Here is my question:
Does Bitcoin have aids? Can it be cured? How?

yes it can be cured when the developers get off their asses and do something productive for the demand rather than doing shit like this

[homo homini lupus]

It had lepra and ebola before but with this fork-thing the aids is confirmed.

[altcoin hitler]

it's obvious to me we should leave bitcoin behind.

Some alts without corrupt foundation, CIA-visiting devs and less inflation will be much more fun.

Who says Bitcoin hasn't failed lives in a phantasie-world. Bitcoin has failed. It should make way for innovation and other less volatile/inflationary coins.
With continuing to support 'Bitcoin' you harm all of cryptocurrency future.

Leave bitcoin to the china manipulators and the banks - it's not a currency for the little man.

[Champ92]

What a question

[waaat?]

Buy Gavincoin to support secret meetings!

[BillyBobZorton]

High hash needs to be paid for.
Bitcoin has good hash but keeps going down because that hash needs to be paid.
When you buy gold you do not pay a constant tax to the miners after initial purchase.
Bitcoin is different. Here you pay after purchase a tax to miners of 10% of its value this year.

Can it be cured with speeding up blocktimes or does it need to fork to faster rewarddecrease?
Obviously satoshi was afraid of attackers. He did not think of a whole army of altcoins which could jump in and back it up.
He did not think of the possibility to share hash with other coins.
What sense does a mega-high hashrate make when it is this expensive and makes the coin useless to store value?
Are the fears which would make such high and expensive hashrate necessary still justified in 2015?

Here is my question:
Does Bitcoin have aids? Can it be cured? How?

yes it can be cured when the developers get off their asses and do something productive for the demand rather than doing shit like this

This is like using the internet 1992. We need time and people will eventually adapt in 10 years. In fact we needed 10+ years for the internet to catch somewhat mainstream waters.

[neurotypical]

Bitcoin only has a cough, when it recovers it will be like arnold in 1975, and you'll miss the boat if you dont own enough.

[ChuckBuck]

Right now Bitcoin has bad case of the Measles:



Just need some ETF and Gemini to help heal it back to full strength...

[pereira4]

Right now Bitcoin has bad case of the Measles:



Just need some ETF and Gemini to help heal it back to full strength...

These red spots are the red candles in the charts lol

[Pecunia non olet]

Bitcoin gave me anal-herpes!

[flyingplows]

Bitcoin is here to stay, if it will need some changes - they will be implemented. As of now everything is o.k. 
Sometimes things get tough but what can you expect here... If there is an immminent serious threat that would kill btc I am completely sure btc would adapt, a solution would be found and we're good to go again. In fact I even like it that there is no hurry to ''upgrade'' btc ;]
It is good as it is given the global circumstances...

[Pecunia non olet]

This thread is still relevant...