At the end of the day, people need to realise there's a pretty big difference between keyboard philosophy and real-world change. If there's anyone here who aspires to Waco, they need to be slapped upside the head. And if there's a single reply here about either the specifics of that situation or the completely flawed government response, you have missed the whole point. Even from a "Davidian Branch Davidian" standpoint, the people in that scenario were fundamentally lacking the ability for civil interaction with the world at large; had they possessed it they would still be alive. Anyone who thinks different has never seen a man die.
To take this back out of the esoteric, what I'm saying is people can and should believe whatever their conviction tells them. But real-world actions have consequences. So is BitCoin going to be a philosophical exercise, or a real-world technology? It's up to us.
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I think the point was that your real-world is not the same as anyone elses real-world, and why should it be?
If you mean mainstream, well that changes, gold coin and slavery were once mainstream. Placing the current norms of one nation, or some might say failing state, as strictures on the success of bitcoins seems a little naive. The black economy is huge, even legitimate govt.s jealously vie for a share of the money that goes through it, why should bitcoin shun it?
You speak as though the Bitcoin Community were monolithic. We're not. We're obviously a group of people united by nothing more than a desire to see bitcoins succeed. What each of us thinks that means will differ, by necessity. Nobody can tell you what to do with your bitcoins.
That said, I think a lot of political ideology has gotten tied up with bitcoins and I think that may end up hurting our common cause in the long run. It would be best for us all if all our apologists advocated were bitcoins. It's harder to sell bitcoins
and a fringe political ideology. Let them be separate. I for one will do my part to make sure it's known that you don't need to be an agorist to like bitcoins.