Quote from: libertyzeal on June 22, 2011, 07:35:09 PM

I've been seeing this theme a lot, where people think that bitcoins are somehow not a fair system, since the early adopters have a lot more bitcoins accrued than newcomers.

To me this is nothing but stupid greed.. it's like being pissed off that you didn't get apple stock when they first IPO'd, so now it's 1998, the iMac is about to come out, and you don't want to invest because by doing so you'll just further enrich the lucky (or enlightened) few that got in at a better price, when there is plenty of upside potential on the horizon.

I'm a newcomer, I've got less bitcoins currently than I have fingers, and it doesn't bother me in the *slightest* that the early-adopters have been rewarded for their forethought and risk-tolerance. They deserve to profit, because without them bitcoin wouldn't be what it is today. Free markets reward good ideas. I may be slightly late to the party, but the night is still young, and I'm happy I'm to be here now. Bitcoin has a long exciting future ahead of it, and I'm looking forward to being a part of it.

Happy trading/mining..

Yep. Early adopters is almost always required for projects like these to take off.

To be honest, in the beginning I got into Bitcoins because I thought I might profit from it. I sold an AMD card to someone locally who's very much into Bitcoin before I even heard about this stuff.

But over the past few weeks the question of whether Bitcoins is profitable for me or not is no longer important.

What is important is that Bitcoins has made me question the very foundation of our crumbling society, it's more than just $.

Don't get me wrong, I would love to see Bitcoin take off and get a share, because we all like money. And I'm not delusional about the fact that most people joined in and stuck around to become speculators. But even if Bitcoin somehow dies off, the idea behind it can never be taken away.