How Many Bitcoiners are Mentally Ill?

[dewdeded]

When BTC is $1,000,000 per coin, will exchanges list the full million, or will they decimalize it?

Talking about $1.000.000/BTC is mentally ill.

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[rpietila]

People can accurately grade others who are less knowledgeable in the field than them. They cannot accurately grade themselves, nor anyone who knows more than them.

i) This is a strong argument against the system of popular vote, because it makes it impossible to get a meaningful percentage of good candidates elected and therefore assures a groupthink outcome suspect to external influence.

But the purpose of elections is not to select the most competent, smartest, more honest, etc.  It is only to measure how much support each candidate has, and convince the minority party that they are indeed a minority.

The alternative to elections is each guy tries to shoot those of the opposite parties, until one side has the clear lead , and the oppositors who still survive choose to obey the winner rather than die.

This alternative method is often adopted when and where people get disenchanted with democracy.  Experience shows that this method does not give better government than a democratic election, but takes absurdly longer to proclaim the winner, and is absurdly more expensive.

It is not for nothing that the ancient Greek were regarded as exceptionally smart people.

I struggled a little concerning how to reply. Does anyone of the readers see the irony, or am I wasting my time here?

[rpietila]

When BTC is $1,000,000 per coin, will exchanges list the full million, or will they decimalize it?

Talking about $1.000.000/BTC is mentally ill.

You give me 100:1 odds, I am willing to bet you BTC1 that it is worth $1,000,000 USD before 10 years have passed. 

Or maybe a 1:100 minority is enough to qualify as "mentally ill"... I heard that the U.S. incarceration plan has 8 million names in it. That has to be about 10% of the literate adult self-supporting males in the U.S.

[dewdeded]

I bet you 50 XMR.

[rpietila]

8 million - - has to be about 10% of the literate adult self-supporting males in the U.S.

I am afraid 8 million could be up to 25% tbh 

[JorgeStolfi]

But the purpose of elections is not to select the most competent, smartest, more honest, etc.  It is only to measure how much support each candidate has, and convince the minority party that they are indeed a minority.

The alternative to elections is each guy tries to shoot those of the opposite parties, until one side has the clear lead , and the oppositors who still survive choose to obey the winner rather than die.

This alternative method is often adopted when and where people get disenchanted with democracy.  Experience shows that this method does not give better government than a democratic election, but takes absurdly longer to proclaim the winner, and is absurdly more expensive.

It is not for nothing that the ancient Greek were regarded as exceptionally smart people.

I struggled a little concerning how to reply. Does anyone of the readers see the irony, or am I wasting my time here?

I don't see the irony.  Do you believe that there is some system that would ensure government by a good minority against the wishes of the majority?

[thejaytiesto]

Everyone that doesn't invest in BTC now is mentally ill.

[Pecunia non olet]

Just briefly glancing through here it seems like anywhere from 15-25% could be diagnosed as morbidly paranoid, with 5% of that as full bore schizophrenia. There's also a great deal of mania in this forum, with the other subforums exhibiting mania/depression or both depending on the subject. It's difficult to parse through a forum but it just seems like an unusually large number of posters here are suffering from some combination of narcissistic/victim personality disorder, either resulting from social isolation, autism spectrum diseases, substance abuse (perhaps bitcoin's primary use) or PTSD.

Has anyone elucidated the link between bitcoin and mental illness? How many people here got involved in bitcoin because you couldn't function in the normal economy, or in society at large? I'm seriously asking because the idea of a currency that specifically draws the unstable members of society is fascinating from a social psychology perspective. There are certainly a very high number of sociopaths leading the bitcoin community (which explains the continuous scams and thefts of the beta member resources). Anyway if there are any normal members here you might want to commission a social worker to survey this forum for potential suicide/homicide risks or a psych researcher to try to and determine what factors of the bitcoin system are selecting for dredges. Cheers!  

It's not even a joke. It's real. ADHS is very commen too.

[Bit_Happy]

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

― Apple Inc.

Much is rotten within the Apple, but that quote is great, thanks for the reminder.  

[manselr]

When BTC is $1,000,000 per coin, will exchanges list the full million, or will they decimalize it?

Talking about $1.000.000/BTC is mentally ill.

You give me 100:1 odds, I am willing to bet you BTC1 that it is worth $1,000,000 USD before 10 years have passed. 

Or maybe a 1:100 minority is enough to qualify as "mentally ill"... I heard that the U.S. incarceration plan has 8 million names in it. That has to be about 10% of the literate adult self-supporting males in the U.S.

I hope 1 BTC is 1 million in the future, but sounds delusional as hell.

[oblivi]

rpietila you've been quoted, you better be correct.

[rpietila]

rpietila you've been quoted, you better be correct.

Well I know I'm followed by a host of people and anything I say can at any time be used against me, regardless of my intention (or that free speech is mandated by the UN and ratified in most countries).

The funny part is not the above, but that the other guys seem to be able to talk shit without punishment all the time. Just look at this forum 

(In case I'm overreacting, and you just need an explanation to any single statement, I am here to help you   )

[Beliathon]

Mental illness is defined by the government/death(pharma) industry these days.

[Bit_Happy]

Mental illness is defined by the government/death(pharma) industry these days.

See? You HAVE to BE "mentally ill" to even consider buying Bitcoins.
Oh wait... 

[hamiltino]

And that is why i love the bitcoin community. Great quote above me.

[gargantuar]

Mental illness is defined by deviance from that which the consensus defines as normal.  That consensus has changed over the years.  The DSM (encyclopedia of mental illness for the "professionals" that label us) changes every single year.  Some of the changes are semantic but it also indicates that mental health is an amorphous blob of crap that hasn't been clearly defined. By the way, take a survey of every mental health worker you know (narrow the focus to PhDs) and see how many of them are elitist/controlling/liberal.

We are always revising.  Butter was bad; now butter is good.  In my opinion, some of the most sane people I have observed post here (also some idiots and shills post here).  If you feel that bitcoiners are nuts, you are in the minority and by our standards YOU are the deviant here and make it more clear with a post (OP) like yours.  Perhaps you should check yourself out of the "insane asylum" and find your own kind.  

The internet created colonies like spots on a Petri dish:  Beastiality, Pug Fetish, Obama worship.  Find your colony -- sounds like this isn't the right colony for you.

[AnswerQuestion]

When BTC is $1,000,000 per coin, will exchanges list the full million, or will they decimalize it?

Talking about $1.000.000/BTC is mentally ill.

I would unfortunately have to agree with this one. While it is okay to 'dream' about achieving riches to think that your $250 is going to turn into a million dollars in only a few short years is only delusional.

If this were to happen to become a reality in the future it would not make the prediction any less delusional

[Possum577]

The same percentage that are mentally ill in the general population.

There's nothing about bitcoin that attracts mentally ill people. And being paranoid of "big brother" or "doomsday" doesn't mean someone is mentally ill.

[Possum577]

When BTC is $1,000,000 per coin, will exchanges list the full million, or will they decimalize it?


Welcome to coinbase, you can buy 1 BTC for $1,000,000 - which you would never do, so why should we quote you an unrealistic purchase price.

Welcome to coinbase, you can buy 0.0001 BTC for $100 - which is totally doable, bro.

BTW, remember when you tipped that guy 0.01 back in 2014 - that's 10,000 bucks now bub.  How's that make you feel inside.

If 1 BTC equals $1,000,000 then the worst problem will have been the collapse of the dollar...and probably the USA, which means the world would have gone to shit too.

[gentlemand]

It's an area that at present attracts people that others might consider not completely normal in their outlook. Some might call it mental illness. Others might call it thinking for yourself. Perhaps it's somewhere in between.