Quote from: kanftka on Today at 12:03:27 PM

This made me smile Grin

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I read several times on the forum that this statement was taken out of context, and that Satoshi did not try to convince anyone that Bitcoin is something that is better than something else. I think that phrase is used too much in the wrong way, because I have personally witnessed how some people react when you try to explain to them the advantages that Bitcoin has over another currency or investment of any type.

Therefore, people who know something about Bitcoin should refrain from, so to speak, spreading it among others as if it were some kind of religion in which we must involve as many people as possible in order to be successful. In the past, I have been told many times that the fact that I talk about Bitcoin only means that I want as many people as possible to get involved in it in order to make a personal profit, which resulted in the fact that I no longer talk about it to anyone, and that I officially sold all the BTC already in the previous bull run.

I read an article a few days ago on the subject of kidnapping/extortion involving cryptocurrencies and there is no doubt that criminals have realized that it is much easier to kidnap people who own cryptocurrencies than to rob banks.

To me, Dan doesn't seem particularly smart when he's holding a hand full of BTC balloons and showing his middle finger - because the crowd could very easily drop him to the ground and play the game "this finger goes to the grocery store, this one goes to the butcher's...." and so on 20 times until he tells them where he keeps his private keys.