Quote from: nullius on Today at 05:09:09 AM

Sound like me? Just looking at one of my Newbie-rank posts from December 2017—coincidentally, two days after the ATH:

Quote from: nullius on December 19, 2017, 02:36:52 AM

In principle, I am also against speculative trading; though I certainly do not complain about appreciation of my bitcoins’ value! I am in Bitcoin primarily for reasons of ideology.

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I do share your concern about certain apparent political collision courses, perhaps inevitable. That’s why I try to inform people about the historical incidence when gold was banned for four decades in the U.S.

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If you have a large holding from 2011, then just enjoy it and support Bitcoin’s further development and social acceptance. This last is important, because Bitcoin is more than a technology: Bitcoin and its value are a sociological phenomenon.

^^^ The Bitcoin: The Social Phenomenon thread was long in coming.

Bitcoin does not live in a vacuum - so of course, speculation remains part of what incentives it's whole system to work in terms of miners at the base security level and then building value within the community - whether being used in commerce, stored or even incentivizing development. Of course, you do not necessarily need to participate in speculation in order to benefit from it, and there may likely be none (or only a few) peeps who actually participate in bitcoin from all angles...

I should just stick with NO ONE can participate in bitcoin from all angles because there is ONLY so much that any one person can do in terms of participating in the various systems that are directly or indirectly inspired by bitcoin (and ongoingly growing too).