Quote from: RoadStress on February 19, 2015, 04:48:41 AM

Quote from: danielpbarron on February 17, 2015, 07:19:42 PM

Bitcoin isn't for everybody.

Who says so? You? Why? Bitcoin IS for everybody, but we just need to agree on how it will be done. (everyone directly on the blockchain or via some other way like sidechains). If you state that "Bitcoin isn't for everybody" I can easily state that "Bitcoin isn't for you" because I want it so.

You can state anything you want -- sure. Does this usually work for you? If so, why are you wasting time on this forum? You could be wishing golden toilets and perpetual motion machines into existence.

Notice this: the author of that particular quote did not preface it with "I wish." The statement is more akin to observing the effects of gravity. Not that everybody won't be affected by bitcoin; they will. It's just not for them. Take bureaucrats, for example. Bitcoin is not for them any more than the noose is for the condemned.

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mircea_popescu: what was the hands-down, no question asked, no doubt possible dominant party and c ultural force of the 1930s ?
mircea_popescu: anihilated by 1960.
mircea_popescu: completely gone by 1990.
mircea_popescu: such success...
mircea_popescu: that the socialists are doing the same thing...
mircea_popescu: so what, anihilated by 2020, completely gone by 2050, hopefully we'll be smarter than to do it over.
mircea_popescu: (but to anyone not quite seeing the world for what it is : yes we are at war, and yes the year is about 1944, and yes the fucking nazis are running the fucking concentration camps and invaded russia and so on and so forth. you had no idera about it, but similarly you had no idea about it in 1944. the only reason this is being an issue is because the introduction of the bitcoin tank/bomber/submarine is massively turning
mircea_popescu: the tide, and suddenly all sorts of disparate and previously doomed forces are now converging.
mircea_popescu: you wouldn't have known there's such a thing as "french partisans" if there wasn't a 1945, either)
mircea_popescu: so no, when i'm talking about hanging each and every us bureaucrat, through a war crimes court, within our lifetime i am not being in any sense and to any degree metaphorical.