Quote from: davis196 on Today at 07:19:16 AM

The great difference between Bitcoin and the Internet is that Internet has enormous utility. The only utility of Bitcoin I can think of is the ability to act as a store of value(and a medium of exchange, but not many people are willing to pay with BTC every day).
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I have to agree with this, and I think I've already written it several times in similar topics - I think it's wrong to compare Bitcoin with the internet, even if it's an argument for some when it comes to putting in context the time it took for the internet to become something accessible to most people, with the same thing when it comes to Bitcoin.

I sincerely doubt that people will ever accept Bitcoin (especially as a currency) given that most governments in the world will never put Bitcoin ahead of their national currencies. If we exclude some countries with totalitarian-communist regimes, most of the free world has accepted the internet as something positive.

Quote from: tranthidung on Today at 08:24:59 AM

Quote from: Gavin Andresen on December 19, 2010, 04:41:39 PM

With Satoshi's blessing, and with great reluctance, I'm going to start doing more active project management for bitcoin.

It should not be forgotten that Gavin was one of those who in some way "protested" because of the way Satoshi made decisions and actually "demanded" to take over the matter. In those early days, Satoshi was not a favorite person and regardless of the reasons, he left because he no longer felt comfortable.

Besides, glorifying Gavin shouldn't be a one way street, this is the same guy who believed that CW Faketoshi was the real Satoshi. For someone who is supposedly very well versed in Bitcoin matters, it's really strange that he would fall for such a cheap trick.