Quote from: KFR on April 29, 2014, 06:29:30 PM

Quote from: JorgeStolfi on April 29, 2014, 03:59:59 PM

Isn't it ironic that the libertarian bitcoiners, champions of laissez-faire capitalism, are betting all their life savings on the hope that the Satoshi Bitcoin will be one day the only cryptocurrency in the market, so that they can charge monopoly prices for it? Wink

Make sweeping generalisations, much? Tongue

I find this much more ironic:

Quote from: KFR on April 25, 2014, 07:02:04 PM

Quote from: JorgeStolfi on April 25, 2014, 04:38:28 PM

Ridiculous. The only reason why most bitcoin crimes go unpunished and victims get no reparation is that bitcoin was appropriated by rabid "libertarians" who hate governments, law, regulations, and police.

The logical consequence of assuming that those things are evil is that "there are no criminals nor victims, only smart people and stupid people".

The invariable response of the "bitcoin community" to each new bitcoin scam or heist is "stupid victims, they should have blah blah blah."

Good to see you airing those "academic" prejudices a little more openly again, prof. Have the high priests of the global Bitcoin conspiracy been getting to you again? Roll Eyes

The reason that some crimes involving Bitcoin have gone unpunished is because governments and regulators are slow to catch on to new technology. Now, what's the reason for the lack of prosecutions with regard to massive fiat scandals? Oh yes, the institutions are "too big to fail" and the individuals involved apparently can't themselves be held accountable either. So that's fair.

Bitcoin could be your saviour but you're so terrified of some of its libertarian fans somehow taking complete control of this massive open-to-all consensus-based network that you'd rather dedicate your time to saving the world from those dangerous imaginary cultists in the most bizarre and fruitless way possible - trolling this thread.

If you want to try and change Bitcoin's direction, stop pushing back and start looking forward.

I know it's much easier for you to tar us all with the same brush. But life's not supposed to be so easy.

Libertarians do not have control of Bitcoin. Nobody has control of Bitcoin. As a libertarian, I like it this way. We don't even think in terms of who should hold centralized power. We are opposed to centralized power itself, no matter who holds it.