Quote from: Cluster2k on November 12, 2013, 12:39:45 PM

Quote from: kriwest on November 12, 2013, 09:58:42 AM

Quote from: LOADING.READY.RUN on November 12, 2013, 09:21:04 AM

For the record: He was Norwegian, not Swedish. And I think this story fueled quite a bit of the general public's recent interest in bitcoin.

Definitely. Get rich quick always draws the masses in.
Just like the Poker boom was set in motion by an average Joe winning a huge tournament, the Norwegian story did wonders for Bitcoin. We need more of those.

We need a lot less of these stories. Anything with a return in the thousands of percent per year sounds like a scam. If it's too good to true... and all that. People need to use bitcoin because it's useful and fills a niche in the financial system. I would rather not have them enter the system because they think they'll be millionaires in a couple of years time for pocket change today.

Well for me it worked, I got curious about bitcoin because of that story but then as I informed myself the idea behind bitcoin and the consequences of its wide adoption made me even more interested than just the getting rich possibility. Now I genuinely want to contribute for this thing to succeed. I think stories like those could lure many type of people and that's kind of good IMO.