YOU guys have been posting in this forum... for 5 years? or even 2-3 years.. would be quite a bit...
Well, this forum hasn't been around 5 years, but a few of us have been here a very long time.
3, 4, 5 years, whatever it is, same debates over and over. Seems like 10 years. Knuckleheads who can't seem to do their own research or bother to read the forums claiming Bitcoin is dead or dying soon yet it goes on, outliving its own obituaries, currently worth a mere 575 times USD.
Actually, I get you on that part. Even though I am a newbie in this particular forum, I am NOT a newbie to life and ridiculous and repetitive non-logical arguments... the naysayers, so to speak, who are NOT really contributing to the direction of the conversation.
YOU guys have been posting in this forum... for 5 years? or even 2-3 years.. would be quite a bit...
Well, this forum hasn't been around 5 years, but a few of us have been here a very long time.
In bitcoin time, a year is a long time... especially when it comes to the result(s) of public exposure to bitcoin.... I started in bitcoin in November 2013... It sure would have been nice to have gotten involved earlier, such as summer of 2013... but anyhow.. better late than never, and even though I am somewhat late, it still seems like the early days of bitcoin, in terms of potential.
I got in circa summer 2013. Heard about Bitcoin the previous year, but didn't explore it enough. Worst mistake ever. Lots of scandal going on, even then, but also so much opportunity if you could see the forest through the trees. I can't tell you how many people thought it could never top $100 (such a psychological barrier btw). It helps to put the current situation into perspective and not fly off the handle over a few lost coins.
Personally, I am NOT too worried about the MT. Gox situation in the whole scheme of things - however, it is leaving some uncertainty for some time b/c we are NOT getting very clear communication about the extent of the damage and/or the extent to which any investors will be made whole. Certainly with the passage of time, more and more regular people are finding out about bitcoin.. and there becomes more and more potential for bitcoin to begin to fill some various voids and to take on the value of various asset classes in the forum of currency, commodity, money transmitter, and network - amongst other potentialities.