Re: Bitcoin Jesus ministry not to preach from American soil

Quote from: inBitweTrust on January 12, 2015, 06:47:48 PM

You seem to be under the impression that the cypher punks represented some idealist punk teens when it consisted of older cryptologists, mathematicians, and programmers. There is nothing to outgrow as many come into anarchist ideals from a lifetime of research and philosophical reflection. Do a bit of research before misrepresenting our history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypherpunk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitfield_Diffie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Hellman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chaum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gilmore_%28activist%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_C._May
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Hughes_%28cypherpunk%29

I am talking about the Bitcoin nut jobs specifically. There are many reasonable people involved in Bitcoin who embrace some of those ideals. However, there is list of agenda-pushers and nut jobs involved in Bitcoin who routinely misrepresent things such as: Ver, Vorhees, Shrem, Rassah, Tourianski, Popescu, Mayer, etc. These are the people who are damaging Bitcoin's reputation and misrepresent what Bitcoin is. They are the "Al Sharpton's" of Bitcoin and they attract the type of people who scare normal people away. These are not the same type of people as those you list above.