Quote from: P_Shep on September 27, 2012, 09:30:12 PM

Quote from: Atlas on September 27, 2012, 09:26:37 PM

Quote from: P_Shep on September 27, 2012, 09:23:51 PM

Quote from: Atlas on September 27, 2012, 08:15:22 PM

The American internet has had no central government since its inception. Nobody is regulating the bandwidth providers. People are free to lay their own data cables, centers and routers as they please.

Errr, telecommunications are very much regulated, as is the WWW, domain names, http, tcp, ip, ftp...

Those are all iterations of various protocols, additions to the internet. The core infrastructure is not regulated.

Which are regulated by committes, foundations, groups etc. or they wouldn't work together, would they?

Dipshit.

They work together regardless because people desire certain things. Some of these protocols remain untouched and need no oversight because they are fine as they are.

They are products that you can either use or defer from. Bitcoin isn't something people can easily leave if they have their savings in it. We are dealing with wealth here.