I once left my motorcycle outside downtown with the ignition hotwired. It wasnt there when I came back. I don't blame the city. I don't defame it or consider its people more or less criminal than those of other cities.
Come on, it was not that petty vandalism of Wikipedia that gave me that negative view of the bitcoin "ecosystem". It is the bulk of what I have read over these four months, especially the hype coming from the "great names".
Bitcoin was crippled by two great disasters: first, its adoption by "libertarians", and, second, the blooming of the Chinese market. These developments turned what could have been a great e-commerce invention into the instrument of a legion of skimmers, scammers, and common criminals. Will the "pure" bitcoiners (if there are any left) have the will and power to get rid of those parasites, before they kill the idea? I don't see that happening.