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The massive amount of anti-bitcoin trolls on this forum, reddit and twitter is a blatant sign to me that we are on the right path. Since we're encountering so much opposition we must be doing something right! Bitcoin will rule the internet of monies in a few years then we can all sit back and laugh at the old days doubt and speculation.

No, it only shows that the "trolls" are trying to tell new people that come to read this forum the truth, possibly avoiding them with financial ruin and a future of obsessed gambling addicts.

For the permabulls there is no hope, the "trolling" is not for them, those will just baghold for the end of eternity.

Aww so you're just trying to help people?

Cool gif.

But yes, I'm trying to show bitcoin's huge limitations to help new people make a more rational decision before dumping real money into this.

What's the alternative? "FUDding to get cheap coins?"

Limitations? Have you ever developed your own shopping cart to sell something online and sign on up with a 3rd party processor who not only takes a % of every sale but also charges you $x per month, and sign up for SSL? With bitcoin you can set up your own webstore in a few hours, no 3rd party payment processors fees, no SSL, more money for the merchant, better prices for the people. But you're not for the people, are you?

Better prices for the people? What about volatility that screws everyone over? http://uk.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-crash-drug-dealers-2015-1?r=US
And if you want to avoid volatility converting to fiat you still need a trusted third party and you need to pay fees.

Fees are usually for consumer protection, it's not because trusted third parties are evil. With bitcoin right now you don't have much fees*, but if something goes wrong and a hacker steals your private keys/coins, it's game over.

*fees are low now that miners ~~print money~~ are profiting from bitcoin's 10% a year inflation, wait for fees to skyrocket as block reward is reduced (even more hilarious since nobody spends/moves coins around, they just hodl them).

What about when volatility makes people more money? There are two sides to volatility you can't pick one side.

Consumer protection... right. Ebay charges you a fee to list your product, sell your product and paypal (same company) charges you to transact. It's not for protection, it's for profit. Want to buy that warranty for $100 extra? Warranties are another fake consumer protection used for profit. Bitcoin protects consumers from shady companies that offer "free" trials and then continually pull money from their credit card after the fact, you can't pull money with bitcoin. Bitcoin is consumer protection. And if you are dumb enough to store your private keys on your webstore (when it's not requried to sell something), you are asking to lose your money.

You realize transaction levels are at record highs? Yup you're right nobody moves or spends coins.

Keep on trolling, we all appreciate your public service to "protect" people from the evils of bitcoin.

Since to move bitcoins around and spend them you need to be connected to teh internets, yes it's quite possible that a hacker steals yo' shit.
If that happens, transaction is irreversible, 0 consumer protection, your money is gone.
Plenty of stories of bitcoiners getting wiped out.

"Transactions levels are at record highs"?
lol no:

https://blockchain.info/charts/estimated-transaction-volume-usd?timespan=all&showDataPoints=false&daysAverageString=1&show_header=true&scale=0&address=
http://www.ofnumbers.com/2014/12/19/are-there-changes-in-the-volume-of-retail-transactions-through-bitpay-this-past-year/

Bitcoiners hodl, don't spend/use it as a currency. Except for drug dealers, those are kinda forced to.