Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
What happened to your analogy? Is the rainforest and endangered species of the world going to remain untouched, but we'll see forests bloated with wild game and cattle carcasses?
Negative externalities may be a foreign concept to you?
In the case of rain forests it concerns the destruction of the ecosystem and numerous other consequences that ensue. As for Bitcoin it relates to the externalization of costs to nodes, in other words destruction of the decentralization.
But that doesn't follow from your analogy... ughhh... my point is that you chose a poorly suited analogy to evoke a moral response which isn't relevant for this debate. You're not fighting FOR your stance, you're fighting against the opposite stance while using every dirty trick in the book. This might be effective in some environments, but if you assume that most people who care to read your posts are not idiots and are dying to hear some well thought out arguments that explains YOUR stance, it's quite annoying.
That's a good point, fatman!!!
Each of us should be prepared to defend our arguments with logic and empirical examples - rather than merely criticizing the facts and/or logic of others.
In this regard, it is muc easier to criticize the arguments of others than to set forth a decent basis for your own arguments.
furthermore, sometimes, we just are NOT going to agree on some of the points, and in that regard, sometimes, it is a good thing to just accept that there are differences of opinions without necessarily bashing your opponent.
Personally, I am NOT very attached to either side of the outcome so long as there is a decent amount of input from a variety of stakeholders, while at the same time some employment of compromises without rushing into directions that could be detrimentally irreversible.
The Bitcoin protocol is likely to survive and even thrive, despite variations of view and even some high level of passion expressed on the various sides of the discussion.