Quote from: Stapleddiet on October 23, 2012, 03:27:36 AM

You do realise that Bitcoin is an experimental currency as the warning states on bitcoin.org 'Bitcoin is an experimental new digital currency that enables instant payments to anyone, anywhere in the world.'

The word experimental to me brings up things like expect change until its been gotten right. As is there has been a lot of faith in the terms of money from punters such as myself and time from the devs etc. that it will succeed eventually but it is still a risk, one that I willingly take. I have not found any guarantees for Bitcoin yet.

I put faith in the devs that they are doing the right thing, if they had nefarious intentions it would of been far more easily to implement in the past than now as each day passes. I dont have a coding background so I also have to have faith in those that do and keep an eye on the code.

Educate yourself on how to actually fix your perceived problems, learn coding, make your own fork etc.

Get some life experience as well.

No, Bitcoin.org and Bitcoin.it claims its an experimental currency. That is not the consensus. That is not the 110 million dollar consensus in the exchange market.

Faith doesn't cut it when it comes to money. The more real certainty, the better and we must not a look at the dev team now but in the future. A power structure over a very successful Bitcoin is prone to corruption: The incentive would grow exponentially.

I don't need code experience to know its risky to change up Bitcoin. Again, there are bugs generated everyday and they could easily be found in a protocol change that could be a major vulnerability. I value Bitcoin as-it-is and so do many others. We are not throwing that love away just because of sensibilities and our purported lack of license.

And we have forks. Plenty of them. Litecoin is not likely to have the same momentum. We are sticking with Bitcoin and making sure it retains its security and value which can only be ruined through reckless change. I have enough life experience and knowledge of history to know how things go to shit and how things become corrupt.

The United States came with a clear limitation of powers that were gradually changed by a centralized federal government. The US government now gains further control of the lives of its citizens and the people all around the world. Let's not let that happen here with our Bitcoins.

Again, the Bitcoin.org development team acting as the single outlet for Bitcoin maintenance and change is dangerous.