Quote from: mosley on February 17, 2014, 06:10:17 PM

I think the point many of you are missing is that we've gotten away from the ideals bitcoin was under-- namely to stop the greed of the big banks and reclaim our monetary system. However, most of the community only cares about pump and dumps, insider trading and manipulation. Most are just as bad if not worse than what BTC was rebelling against. The article doesn't pretend to have any answers, but aims to open up a dialogue on how to continue to grow this community before we all eat each other alive.

But the article repeats the mistakes of big banks and our current monetary system by calling for government regulation, which would be suicide. I'm all for more information to educate people about bitcoin, but the article doesn't actually give any of that. I'm all for ideas to make thing better, but the ideas have to be well conceived and the ones in this article just aren't. Dialogue doesn't get thing done. If you want something done, don't just talk about doing it, actually get it done.

Quote from: James-Cryptonomics on February 17, 2014, 07:02:40 PM

This is perfectly written. I tried recently to write an article addressing a few of the issues the author raised and was met by a barrage of criticism, so I understand why the author says that people will not like what he is saying. But it is true. I do think the larger bitcoin community need to discuss rationally the coins future, and how we all can be helping it along. Here here......

Also this thread here highlights why I love bitcoin talk, and get frustrated with reddit. Just look at the responses: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1y5jj9/we_need_to_talk/

Rational discussion doesn't mean we have to accept everything you're saying without questioning it. If people are giving criticisms, you're not doing enough to convince them you're right. Neither is whoever wrote the article. The reddit comments might be somewhat terse, but I'm actually inclined to agree with them. The article is a big collection of words which sound nice, but achieves nothing. I'd rather have something concise and with a little more substance.