I've been a silver stacker for years, and I can tell you that the lessons from the silverbugs are hard won. Silverbugs have really taken it on the chin and tasted the business end of the JPM etc. buggy whip. Perhaps that is one of the reasons that there is a, very unfortunate, knee-jerk reaction to Bitcoin - fear of manipulation. I, myself, certainly came in VERY cautious to Bitcoin. But the more I study it, the more I like it.

Perhaps now that (at least for the moment) the Bitcoin community realizes that valuations can also go down, it is a good time to do more to bring the movements together. Silverbugs tend to be hardened vets whose minds are, frankly, too narrow. Bitcoiners tend to be techie idealists who have difficulty hearing any critique.

I have a lot of admiration for both communities. And I consider them to be very smart people.