Quote from: lonestranger on June 22, 2011, 02:00:34 PM

Quote from: finnthecelt on June 22, 2011, 02:55:00 AM

Are we even talking about BTC anymore? What's going on here with this petty drivel? Check yourselves as the enemy engages. The boards are infiltrated. What point are you proving and to whom? Is it serving your own ego? Are you winning?

What have you won?

If you don't understand your enemy you cannot win. Many people on this forum believe the lies that pass for the mainstream view, what I call "the matrix". As long as they do so they will not see the attacks coming even if they are telegraphed.

Although, I've almost never seen someone's mind changed via internet forum.

I'd be willing to bet somewhere in the CIA there is already a bitcoin task force and I wouldn't be surprised at all if they have been tampering with the infrastructure, hacking exchanges, infiltrating these forums (fora?), and studying the reaction. I know there are those who think government is always just plain stupid (and I think this springs from their own sense of superiority). This kind of hubris will hurt us. This enemy is evil, intelligent, and infinitely resourceful and they've been at this game for a long time. They want to kill bitcoin.

Fair points.

I agree with you. I think the attacks lately are too concentrated to be 1) coincidence 2) random people in the world trying to steal...

Largely government is idiotic as a whole. Politicians who are motivated by greed are shortsighted and therefore, well, stupid. The CIA on the other hand is a different matter.

I think the greatest weakness of BTC right now is the number of very young people involved who (begin generalizations) really have no clue how governments operate. They don't know the history of money. They don't understand the complexities and relationships between the industrial military complex and the banking industry.

But they do have many opinions!! I would hope people are willing to learn and researching independently the ideas being bandied about here. Spouting off without validation is folly.

Anyway, I ramble. I was just trying to bring the tone down to earth. These trolls are having a hay day with some of the forum members.