Quote from: Waltibaba on June 19, 2011, 02:54:44 PM

Quote from: Swishercutter on June 19, 2011, 02:35:36 PM

When you are told something is bad, unprofitable or just plain going to fail enough times you will start to believe it...people spend a lot more time discrediting bitcoin than they do praising it...its pretty obvious that the news articles are biased/not factual. It gives the appearance of conspiracy for sure...just go try to post in a random forum about bitcoin, there will be someone (possibly more than one) immediately posting trying to "save" people before they get involved in this scam...I have never seen this kind of "concern" before online. Just what I have noticed.

I think that is more down to the people's ignorance on the matter of bitcoins. I mean you can't blame them, it took me a while too to figure out why I am getting money for running my GPU at 100%. What you can blame them for is spreading information they are not certain about or have not received confirmation on. Look at the original article with Schumer and the other senator. It said bitcoin is "untraceable" so now all these anti-bitcoin idiots keeping repeating that although its not even close to being true, or is taken out of context.

True, although there tends to be a pattern. Almost, as if you are talking to the same person/group. Could just be hivemind but that just backs the mass brainwashing argument. Things are only conspiracy until fact starts to back them...this could go either way.

My thoughts are: Whoever herds the sheep is scared.