Quote from: Criptomen on September 03, 2018, 05:54:16 PM

Based on your logic, almost everyone who has bitcoin, parasites. The price of bitcoin is very unstable, that's because of this there are a lot of holders who try to speculate and it's normal thing in my opinion. I don't think that the progress of bitcoin depends heavily on whether people will use it right now to buy things, the progress of bitcoin depends on the states and large companies that so far do not accept and do not use bitcoin as fiat money

How so? How come that almost everyone holding bitcoin is a parasite, according to you?

To cut a long story short, I agree that people, especially the early adopters ("pioneers"), who hold bitcoin for the sake of actually using it in the future are not parasites. Those who buy bitcoin or get paid with bitcoin, for example, via signature campaigns, and then use it as a means of payment for goods and services are not parasites either. Basically, anyone who contributes (or massively contributed in the past) to bitcoin economy in a constructive way is not by any means a parasite. Even short-term traders who are focused on nothing else but getting profits cannot be called unscrupulous parasites as they are providing liquidity to the market and help discover the bitcoin price even though they pursue entirely selfish interests. Apart from that, they are not necessarily looking exclusively for fiat. It is not uncommon to see a trader trying to increase his bitcoin balance.