Quote from: Holliday on March 11, 2014, 05:51:15 PM

I use Bitcoin as a tool to increase my freedom. I am not immune to the value fluctuations, but I've accepted them long ago. I'm betting on one thing, that there will continue to be people in the world who value Bitcoin as a useful tool until something better comes along (assuming Bitcoin can't simply adopt the improvements should that occur).

I used to think like you, way back when I first heard of and then first starting using Bitcoin. But now, there are just so many reasons and arguments around that make such a rose tainted view of Bitcoin utterly impossible for me. Bitcoin today is an out and out shark pool. For this reason, Bitcoin will become subject to ever increasingly tighter regulation which will piss all over your freedom and actually make someone less free, and less anonymous for using it.

Quote from: sgbett on March 11, 2014, 09:41:40 PM

I don't assume to have you sussed, in fact you might just be trolling, in which case fair play you got me! IF you aren't though I'm fascinated by your motives.

I am into Bitcoin to make money. I don't believe in it (anymore), I don't like what it has turned into, and I don't trust the motives of the people who are ultimately responsible for putting it out into the public arena. But I have seen how I have already missed out on 10000%+ profits just cos I was too lazy to make that wild-card £1000 investment back in the day, or if I did, I then proceeded to spend it all on Silk Road. I am not bitter about it, after all, I could be a millionaire if only I had put on last weeks winning lottery numbers. However, just as I believe that Bitcoin could easily repeat mid 2011, April and then November 2013, there is also every danger that it doesn't, or that it repeats Nov 2011 before it is ready for another bout of parabolic action. I rage against posters who compose post after post of Bitcoin dirge that consists of nothing more than what they 'hope' happens rationalised into some pseudo-logical argument, and bearish dullards such as igorr are just as annoying as shit for brain bulltards like JimboToronto. Both types of Bitcoin retard can affect someones mind in such a way that they lose money, which evokes ire in me.

Why I feel the need to rage against anyone as opposed to just quietly sitting doing my own thing is a much broader question. Perhaps I am sensitive to the notion of how the sheer weight of the invariably wrong majority tends to overwhelm the meak but more often correct stance of the minority. Perhaps it is emotionally appealing to me to view myself as a minority figure of perpetual correctness who must defend himself against the opinions of the moronic masses? Perhaps throwing profanities and insults at people on the internet who demonstrably disagreed with me at some point and got it wrong, makes me feel good and distracts my attention from all the times that I got it wrong? It isn't my fault, its his! and his! and hers! Bastards the lot of them!

Like a fly to shite however, I am checking out Bitcoin charts, Bitcoin news, and Bitcoin opinions (such as on this forum) on a near daily basis. What I hope to get out of it is to gauge a good entry point into the market on a long term basis. I felt it was coming into shape just a short time ago, but now I am not so sure once again. A nice gentle rise above $580 would have been so much more reassuring than the mad price surge caused by that 20K+ panic buying whale. Bitcoin could spring up from here, or take a further nose dive down, but whatever it does, the path directly ahead at this point in time is caked with mist and fog and since I am loss averse above all else, I am out for now.