Looks like we sure came a long way in a month.

We have people who otherwise couldn't be bothered with the intricacies of another coin coming out and getting bothered all over the place, and not entirely in a bad way. Turns out that much of the criticism is reciprocal.

Constructive arguments have been made, all based on confronting the idea idea that the linear interpretation of success is just another lie we tell ourselves.

I'm here all the time, and I can tell you just by skimming all of your words that you're interconnected in ways you can't even imagine. Try it sometime, skim threads you normally would never check out. Maybe you'll see some of what I see. People whom you've never interacted with and have never heard of have influenced your very thoughts, your conversations, right here on this board. And not in a bad way. This board has changed a lot in just a month.

It's very telling, when a certain phrase doesn't get typed in a few weeks reemerges in at least 4 other posts totally unrelated to the original conversation that the words were typed first in within a day.

Only to have that phrase fade back into obscurity for months after that.

It goes further than that, that's just one small cue.

Maybe some realized that btctalk just won't be here forever, after that 3 day outage. Feels like it will be, but it won't.

Maybe some realized that the coming regulations will have profound impacts on the entire cryptosphere.

Really, I just hope, some realized that crypto certainly isn't linear. Sometimes you need to say or do things that are not continuous with any type of ego or character you've built up for yourselves.

If you continue to concentrate on the idea that you're here to foster a technology that will be capable of coexisting with the technology that will become so ubiquitous over the next few decades, touching every single person on the face of the planet, the profits will follow.

It won't be the paper you're used to, and its timely exit will happen because it's a relic of the last few millenia. Like evolution - it's just not fit to continue on.

Awesome responses, btw.