Quote from: cypherdoc on June 08, 2015, 05:40:10 PM

Quote from: Erdogan on June 08, 2015, 05:24:51 PM

Quote from: cypherdoc on June 08, 2015, 03:54:34 PM

interesting quote from the Chinese mine:

"Their verdict was: "Absolutely nothing to see. The local Tibetans make sure everything is overpriced.""

point being, all the devs who look down on the masses as stupid & irrational as justification for authoritarian practices regarding decisions in Bitcoin are severely underestimating the power of money to motivate ppl to understand the economics of value transaction. i see this everywhere in the Bitcoin community and it's an attitude that will cost those who employ that attitude in many ways more than just in their pocketbooks.

http://www.coindesk.com/my-life-inside-a-remote-chinese-bitcoin-mine/

Good. These things are not necessary for bitcoin proliferation: Education, economic or otherwise, gigabit internet, high end phones, savings. It is not those things that have kept the people of North Korea, Eritrea, Venezuela or Haiti back, it is nonfreedom, or governments. The only thing that is necessary for people to flourish, is hunger, or swung positively, lust for life.

and it will be those ppl who will most resist gvt censorship of Bitcoin. but only if they are given a chance to use it reliably & cheaply. we should all want to give it to them, not out of altruism, but out of our own greed; as in greater security of our coins and in creating digital gold.

another way to look at this is that are we (meaning ALL of us in the community) really prepared to be the real resistance fighters in this war on USD hegemony? i'll admit right here that i am not. i live here in the US, have a family to take care of, and i provide a valuable service to my community. i am not prepared to sacrifice this. but dollars to donuts we'll have idiots like LukeJr, marcus, iCE, and MPEX stepping up and claiming they would gladly be those resistance fighters. c'mon, do you really think they would not roll over in an instant to give up Bitcoin if jail time threatened? no way. they are loud mouth bombastic blowhards.

the real resistance fighters are the ones mentioned above. those desperate enough, hungry enough, willing to steal, hawk, crawl down holes, or fight just to get the next meal. we need to get Bitcoin into their hands as quickly as possible.