I see, so then all I have to do to get the average man off the street to safely adopt bitcoin (and declare war on the fiscal system) is teach them linux, cryptography, and vmware. >.> Why didn't I think of that?

I am so sick and tired of attitudes like this making all of open source look downright smug and mean. Not to mention devoid of vision or common sense. I'm so tired of this petty divisive clannish crap.

Newsflash: Not Everyone Is A Nerd And This Is Not A Personal Failing. (I'm reminded of ethnocentrism, but that's the wrong word.) Society is full of specialists. Demanding that everyone who wants to use something as basic as Currency adopt Your specialty is unrealistic and arrogant to put it mildly.

It reminds me of some ivory tower obsessive compulsive math professor demanding that children be required to pass calculus 4 before leaving grade school just because you happen to have a gift for numbers. Or some crotchety old fossil demanding that everyone should have to churn their own butter just because he can and does.

Bitcoin is unsafe so long as the wallet file system persists.

Think of it this way. If every single bit coin were legally treated like an image of child porn, how long would it take before they were all destroyed? The fact that the system allows bitcoins to effectively be destroyed is a huge, obvious, glaring, deal breaking, weakness. If it can't be coded around or even conceptualized around then bitcoin is dead.

You people don't seem to fathom the damage a functional crypto currency would do to government power, nor the lengths to which they will go to preserve that power. Think secret service anti-counterfeiting efforts times a billion.

Perspective: ultimately, we are attempting to usurp the power of the global financial industry and trying to talk people out of using dollars at the same time.

We are trying to unrig THE game.

Your technically skilled naivete would be adorable and entertaining if the loss humanity might incur (the wholesale rejection of virtual currency as unsafe thanks to a lousy first impression and poor initial marketing) as a result was not so severe.

Why don't you stop thinking about your ego for 30 seconds and think about humanity and it's future? This isn't about how smart YOU are! Its about making average people comfortable enough to trust their lives to this abstraction. This is about perception management along with ideological and cyber warfare.

Look at the damage controlled currency has done to history.


Are you really going to get all defensive and snide with newbies when we have a real chance to prevent that damage?

I guess you are.

Your children and their children will probably die slaves of the banking system like we both will because of it, but hey at least you got to feel like a computer god for a little while. Fair trade yeah? >.>

You know, it dawns on me, at this point people like you are a worse threat than the ones I've mentioned.

You're like the techs at Chernobyl that said yeah sure an RBMK graphite-moderated reactor design allows for melt down, but our awesome technical skill and professional vigilance will be enough to prevent disaster, we have no need to consider the much safer PWR design.

It's probably too late already and I'm wasting my time.

Enjoy the last word, I'm done.