Quote from: European Central Bank on July 03, 2016, 05:13:31 PM

uh, what does this have to do with bitcoin? it's everything to do with the crappy sites that deal with it. if another coin was top dog then it would fall when the same crappy sites failed too.

there's a new thing out called thinking things through. it's kinda cool. try it.

There are two tenable positions:
1. Only code is Bitcoin.
2. Everything -- from miners to user base to sites dealing with Bitcoin -- is Bitcoin.

(2) works for me, Bitcoin is meaningless without the people who gravitate to it and businesses built around it, that's what gives it value. That's what gives any currency its value. Pretty much what gives *everything* in the world its value. Including society, or a country.

A country could be technically great, but if the people who live there suck/are crooks (not the country's fault), if the stores are constantly empty because someone just robbed them (not their fault), if no one trusts each other (not their fault -- surrounded by crooks), if everything is crappy and old and broken because all the surrounding countries (unjustly) hate your country (not your country's fault), what you got is a shit country; a shitty place to live.
Communism too is great on paper. Unworkable in real life. Go figure.