Quote from: STT on April 23, 2014, 07:27:38 AM

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Bitcoin isn't ready for safe use by you just yet.

Im not sure elitism works in a network economy. The inane Doge coin approach seems to have worked far better then it should have but I think it does help to simplify things for people.
The product will do far better, go further maybe be worth more if it looks and works even like lego. Thats generally how mass production or scales of economy goes I think

I'll just take it high difficulty is part of a feedback loop and essential to the continuance of BTC and nobody should argue different

It figures that you'd see it as elitism. Let's recap: You don't understand it, you don't want to read about it, you don't want to hear that that can be dangerous. Fine. You're free to do whatever you like, bud. I'm all about choice and the responsibility that comes with it.

BTW, it is DIFFICULTY that is one of the feedback loops. Naturally, for there to be a loop at all, it must be able to move within a range. "High" difficulty now, according to youto me, it is operating exactly as designed, and is limiting the release rate of new BTC as intended, and the economy is just doing its supply-and-demand thing based on available tech and the current and speculative price, seen as ROI by minersand by the time we're at minuscule block rewards and all Tx fees for miner incentives, maybe it'll be what you call "low" relative to the tech at that time.

How can one begin to "argue different[ly]" without understanding the foundational structures? I am continually amazed by the now-majority here in the ruins of the once-brilliant BCT. So glad there's a more "secretive" one, which admits only those who at least have read and grasp maybe 20% of the whitepaper. You'd probably say elitist, I say that's a low bar compared to BCT even 18 months ago. If there were a way to bet on it and it could be proven, I'd wager you've never even skimmed the whitepaper, though only a few pages long.

You really should read it if you give a damn about any of this at all. If you're just here for a thrill or to play with magical internet money like a penny stock hoping to strike it rich, by all means, do as you please. You're right, Doge is more suited for you, then, as a community.

Doge is fantastic, BTW, because of exactly that. What I can't fathom is, why everyone all of a sudden wants the serious Bitcoin communities and the older hands to stop being "serious" and be more like Doge. Serious is how we got here, and it's how you got Doge! Yes, we're flippant about politics and jurisdictional shenanigans. See TPB. Lawmen thinking they can order the internet about is funny to us. But the mission is serious. Financial oppression and economic war is very real and this is the first chance we've had to implement radical change and free billions. Why Bitcoin exists *is serious*. If you're uncomfortable with that, go play with your carefree Shibe brethren. AndI'll repeat this because you're clearly a "muggle" and muggles are like goldfishI love their being around in their section of the cryptocommunity as well.

What I hate is pretension, mockery, and anti-intellectualism. To say nothing of the incredible disrespect and hypocrisy. You're here because of serious people doing serious work, for free, in their own time, for no guaranteed result. You don't have to worship or love or admire that, but I won't stand for spreading misinformation, refusing to read, and then shrugging it all off like it makes no difference. You're still in a public forum, and a Bitcoin one, and a few random passers-by might actually give half a fuck, brand-new and looking for real answers. You're a "Sr. Member" according to the forum. Fucking act like it, or expect to be called out when one of the few remaining old hands pops by for nostalgia.