Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
I just noticed that on Apr/09 some "nice person" edited my entry in Wikipedia, adding the statement that I am an enthusiastic bitcoin investor and owner of one of the 500 largest bitcoin fortunes. (The anonymous "nice person" who did it used the IP 145.101.24.158, which is registered to "Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam, Keizersgracht 440, Nl-1016 Gd, The Netherlands".) 
Apart from the attempt to harm me personally, I deeply resent the vandalization of Wikipedia for such purposes. But I should not be surprised. Unfortunately the bitcoin "ecosystem", from the "patriarchs" and "whales" down to the drooling daytraders, seems to be heavily infested by people who are capable of much worse things.
Which is another reason why I am extremely skeptical about the success of bitcoin. Why would the world agree to cede control of the global internet currency to such "adorable" people, and let them steal a large slice of its wealth?
Apart from the attempt to harm me personally, I deeply resent the vandalization of Wikipedia for such purposes. But I should not be surprised. Unfortunately the bitcoin "ecosystem", from the "patriarchs" and "whales" down to the drooling daytraders, seems to be heavily infested by people who are capable of much worse things.
Which is another reason why I am extremely skeptical about the success of bitcoin. Why would the world agree to cede control of the global internet currency to such "adorable" people, and let them steal a large slice of its wealth?
There are likely a lot of smart people into bitcoin and a lot of smart people reading this thread, too. And surely, you also know that there are a lot of very smart people into various developments related to bitcoin.
But Jorge you should also realize by NOW that merely b/c some supposed bitcoin enthusiast painted you as being connected to bitcoin, that does NOT change the fact that bitcoin in essence does NOT have people controlling it b/c it is decentralized and peer to peer. Also, even though there are various transfers of wealth going on within bitcoin from the old rich to the new rich and also some battles by the old rich (likely to keep the young punks from taking too much wealth), in the end profiting off of bitcoin is NOT the same as giving up fiat sovereignty to a bunch of thugs. The fact of the matter is that the current money system is filled with thugs and has been filled with thugs for a while.. big bankers, the Fed and also people running the IMF are filled with thugs of various sorts, who are heads above the level of any supposed bitcoin thugs.