Quote from: Pushtheghost on April 01, 2015, 06:30:10 PM

Quote from: hilariousandco on April 01, 2015, 06:16:51 PM

Why not? Bitcoin is centered around open source software. Should satoshi have charged people to use bitcoin? Not everything has to have capitalistic motives as well, though if theymos wanted to make more money surely he would have planned to charge people to use the software?

You're correct. Open source software is great. However Satoshi didn't pay a development team $1,500,000 to create the bitcoin network & software. There's a big difference in those comparisons. Capitalistic motives aren't necessary, why not keep the software unique to this forum & don't allow others the chance to reap the rewards of a one and a half million dollar software package?

Sounds pretty greedy and still seems to be coming from a capitalist mentality that if they can't make money from it then it should be kept exclusive. Why should it be kept so? The money that paid for it all came from donations so it's development has already been pretty altruistic.

Quote from: dogie on April 01, 2015, 07:40:28 PM

Quote from: hilariousandco on April 01, 2015, 06:16:51 PM

Why not? Bitcoin is centered around open source software. Should satoshi have charged people to use bitcoin? Not everything has to have capitalistic motives as well, though if theymos wanted to make more money surely he would have planned to charge people to use the software?

Lets be honest, Satoshi probably did have some capitalistic motives when he put out the white-paper. He imagined it could be a future payment network and put himself in a position that if it did take off, he'd be well seated.

I think if he was just wanting to get rich quick he would have dumped his coins long ago but maybe he is bitcoins biggest believer and hodler? I think we've best hope he isn't Cheesy

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