While I am inspired by your enthusiasm, I think that you are assuming people like the Winklevii twins actually believe in BTC. Even if they claimed to, i still wouldn't know it for a fact. Their economic profile points towards them merely attempting to hoard and turn a huge profit. Even if they did(and others), what does this mean?
Agreed, they may not have any real belief at all. However, them wanting to turn a huge profit still means that it is in their best interest for Bitcoin to make it to the mainstream, so their goals would still align with and help ours despite their intentions. They and their advisers will be looking to do whatever they can to turn such a risky huge investment into a "sure thing".
Well, this isn't the first time that mass collaboration around an open protocol has changed the world. You might have heard of things like Wikipedia, or the world wide web itself -- both great examples of this. Look up Don Tapscott's work for more on this.
I was referring to an Open Source project in which
all contributors had
direct financial incentive to see the project succeed. This is the first of its kind. As you also said later in your post. Very cool seeing Bitcoins going to charity work! And just the kind of good press Bitcoin needs to balance out the bad publicity lately.
On a sidenote, I wanted to thank the people who tipped me, you unknowingly made my dream come true. I can now scratch "Get paid for writing" off my Bucket List. Thank you so much!
And try and tell me that would have happened without Bitcoin. Like anyone is really going to set up a whole dumbass credit card transaction just to tip someone a lil' somethin over the internet. Maybe now some of the musical artists that we have been downloading discographies of all these years can finally start getting some of the financial support they deserve... It will be the 21st century version of tossing a dollar into the guitar case, except with a LOT more people walking by. Lovin it.
I love the way you think man! feasible micro transactions, I had never thought of that, hell I can send several denomination lower than a penny with this system!
Jeez now that I think about it, this technology makes it really easy to transfer any amount between any currency... It may act like a buffer between currencies to prevent massive inequalities between buying power among third world countries vs Developed countries. What if it established a gold standard of value between all currencies?