Quote from: Dafar on January 06, 2015, 05:56:17 PM

Quote from: riiiiising on January 06, 2015, 04:40:50 PM

derp dee derp... OK, first of all, everyone has heard about bitcoin, including my infirm 89-year-old grandmother, and yet, nobody is buying them!

Typical example of a "dumb critique", you clearly don't understand the simple fact that bitcoin isn't designed to be useful out of the box. It needs applications, use cases and infrastructure to be developed first and then it can be implemented on that foundation. Why would you expect everyone who heard about bitcoin to immediately use it? Regulation is still hazy, volatility is high (naturally from a tiny market cap), it is currently risky in terms of security and it has a long way to go with the applications to be developed for bitcoin to be truly be simple, accessible and useful to the to common people...

All the time I'm involved in bitcoin, I keep hearing this. We need killer app. So what is that? Seems to me it has already come, which is speculating and gambling. You can buy bitcoin, go to satoshi dice, and gamble it away in minutes. I suppose that's cool, but what else does it offer?

You can keep saying that these applications are coming, but until then we're just riding on rainbows and happy thoughts. I could buy Solyndra stock and just keep telling myself that the day is coming when everyone will install solar panels on their rooftops and we'll live in a zero emission world of peace... but until it happens (if it ever happens) we're just hoping for an outcome and nothing more.

Aren't you the guy who declared 2014 would NOT be the year of bitcoin? I thought you were smarter than this. Put down the kool aid and come to your senses!