Quote from: bitcoinsachs on February 19, 2014, 11:57:55 AM

Quote from: DeathAndTaxes on February 17, 2014, 05:40:29 PM

Quote from: mosley on February 17, 2014, 04:16:17 PM

This. This 1000x. We can change and make bitcoin better.

http://www.bitcoinsachs.us/editorials/we-need-to-talk/

While I don't disagree with anything in the article it is simply a restating of what is "wrong" with the crypto-currency movement without any agenda or plan to improve it. There author says there should be more focus on education. Ok. I don't think many people will argue with that. So what is the authors plan? Is this article the launching of the first in a twenty part education video aimed at crypto-currency novices? No. The author proposes and has done nothing to provide education.

On the other hand you have people like Andreas who simply decided (without the need for self aggrandizing speech about what is wrong) to start actually ... educating people.

One article, one podcast, and one tv appearance at a time. His large number of podcasts and articles got him invited to speak at conferences and that has led to media outlets asking him to speak on the air.

Most recently: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ1yWihBNA4

I will take one Andreas over 100,000 articles linked in the OP. Did the author in the article forget about people like Andreas or was it just not convenient to the narrative, which paraphrased is "Bitcoin sucks and only I can see it"?

Ordinarily I don't respond to anything on this site, but this one will get a response. You're wrong on every level. I've created the Gender Equality Think Tank, CCWG (cryptocurrency Working Group) for the leaders and developers of all coins to get together share ideas, grow community, and to work together. I've been working with BitcoinWife on educational ideas along with many lengthy conversations on Twitter about education for children, elderly, and ways to interact and grow adoption across socioeconomical boundaries not to mention on Zetacoin.cc we've been creating tutorials on how to use CoinBase, and Bter, along with a few other exchanges. I am sure you mean't well, and you were not trying to be an obnoxious self-serving dickwad talking about what you know nothing about. I know you were trying to suggest that I should write another article detailing out all the plans to fix these things, because you know, all of that responsibility lands solely on my shoulders and naturally, not yours.

Andreas, a friend of mine. Funny you should mention him. He was mentioned in my article, you know, the guy out there antagonizing the United States government at every turn and every time a microphone is put in front of his face. Yea, touched on that. We're not even going to discuss his inability to talk to the people instead of over the people. I love him to death and he is a genius, but if the average person has no idea what you're saying because you choose to only use words and phrases that you have to come back to explain, it's more self-serving than educational. You have to know who your audience is. The audience used to be the people who understand monotone heady computer science lectures, that's no longer the case. One must adapt, that's his next challenge.

Also kind of funny the narrative of your post, probably by accident is "this article sucks and only I can see that it didn't come with the answers and now I have to think which is inconvenient"

This is reason #3,281 why I don't hangout on this site. Too many trolls.

BCS

You don't hang out here because no one is buying your BS. You're peddling this all-inclusive whining in the place that cares about it least. The beauty of the internet, crypto and cypherpunks is that you don't have to tell misogynists that you're a woman, you don't have to tell racists you're black, etc. Ideally no one cares, but crypto puts the power in your hands.

Why is it that we assume minorities must necessarily be intersted in everything, and if they aren't present it must be because they have been forced out? Men don't do quilting. Why? Because they don't like it. No one thinks it's because women shut them out.