Quote from: traincarswreck on March 27, 2017, 07:40:27 AM

You are conflating the usefulness of transacting with money with the usefulness of a store of value. That people will leave bitcoin because it is not useful for the former does not imply bitcoin is not useful for the latter.

Metaplayers waste nothing by using bitcoin, it will always be by far the cheapest more secure/apolitical way to send large amounts of value. Other options will never be able to beat this.

A voice of reason, thank you traincarswreck. Bitcoin has proven to be an amazing store-of-value asset, providing us all an option to beat the rising cost of rent, travel, healthcare, education, etc.

Quote from: DGulari on March 25, 2017, 04:10:24 PM

You guys ruined it all. Bitcoin is now fucked and getting more fucked everyday. I think the end in near.

OP, quite the contrary. The integrity of Bitcoin, as it stands in its current form, unchanged, day by day, is getting stronger and stronger. It is virtually flawless. The only thing that can break it, is implementing a change.

To further borrow words of wisdom...

Quote from: BitcoinBarrel on March 18, 2017, 09:15:44 PM

Bitcoin is supposed to be a digital store of value, not some micro-transaction dust coin.

Quote from: BitcoinBarrel on March 24, 2017, 09:51:12 PM

If you modify BTC into an alt-coin it will be susceptible to more bugs, more issues, more security risks, etc...

Bitcoin will gain MORE value over time if people leave it as-is...

Bitcoin has been transacted globally and has emerged >$15B strong, and has been getting stronger each of these past EIGHT years.

To all, for a better understanding of why bitcoin has emerged as this amazing store of value, please read this post titled "Hacks & puppets & forks - how to destroy bitcoin" https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1834310.0