Quote from: bahatassafus on February 16, 2012, 09:45:27 AM

I disagree. How can you compare bitcoin to silkroad?

Silk Road - legal or illegal, no matter what laws are passed or what politicians say about it, they can't do anything about it, and it will continue to exist, simply because people don't think it's wrong, and want it to exist.
Bitcoin - legal or illegal, no matter what laws are passed or what politicians say about it, they can't do anything about it, and it will continue to exist, simply because people don't think it's wrong, and want it to exist.

Quote from: bahatassafus on February 16, 2012, 09:45:27 AM

SOPA is indeed a great example, but saying the people completely ignored it?? The efforts to stop it - probably the biggest campaign in the history of web rights - was successful!

It was successful, but had it failed, things like Tor, I2P, and Namecoin would have seen a huge surge in adoption, and once they became mainstream, "legal or illegal, no matter what laws are passed or what politicians say about it, they can't do anything about it, and it will continue to exist, simply because people don't think it's wrong, and want it to exist."

Quote from: farfiman on February 16, 2012, 10:14:35 AM

If it bitcoin survives like Tor,BT and SR then we have lost the battle to making Bitcoin a real alternative.

Just as we have lost the battle to making BitTorrent a real alternative for file sharing... wait...