Quote from: ~Coinseeker~ on March 05, 2014, 10:34:07 PM

Quote from: BADecker on March 05, 2014, 09:40:19 PM

There's a little 1-second bite in the first video that says that Bitcoin is bringing democracy to the world. This is BAD. Democracy means majority rule.

If you are in the minority, you might not like majority rule. Bitcoin is not democratic. It is not majority rule. It is everyone for himself. It is learning how to be responsible for your own actions and freedom, or you might lose to a Bitcoin thief.

Bitcoin is the laws of nature being enacted in mathematical form to grant freedom, not democracy, to everyone in the world!

Hmmm...so how does the Bitcoin protocol determine its rules?

The rules have been determined by the devs and Satoshi. They are strictly followed by the client, according to the laws of nature for math and electronics, etc.

People are developing all kinds of other coins and things that resemble Bitcoin. But, because they are different, they are not Bitcoin.

At this stage of the Bitcoin game, if anyone wants to actually change the Bitcoin programming so that it acts and reacts with the whole blockchain and with all the versions of the client already out there, he is going to have to be very careful, or it won't work.

If someone develops a quantum computer, for example, he might be able to add new rules to those already in use by Bitcoin, and change the whole structure of the Bitcoin operation. Quantum computers in every household just might make Bitcoin anonymity a real thing.