Quote from: alani123 on September 02, 2014, 12:29:29 AM

Quote from: imBLACKjack on September 01, 2014, 11:45:56 PM

Quote from: alani123 on September 01, 2014, 10:51:12 PM

Quote from: HELP.org on September 01, 2014, 10:29:06 PM

I remember when some companies refused to have web sites because they didn't want to be associated to porn sites, places that stole credit card number, and web sites with dancing bear gifs.

What? I guess that haven't been in the intrnet from back then but this sounds just weird. People are not willing to take risks, maybe a payment system that offers what bitcoin does sounds too good to be true for them.

I don't think it was many companies that were like this but it was somewhat of an issue in the early 90's when the internet was just starting to be used by the public.

Bitcoin used to be associated with a lot of bad things just like the internet was but is becoming less so.

The internet is still related to bad things and most likely it will always be. But still billions of people use it daily, not all of them are marked as criminals. If bitcoin manages to get even bigger, I guess that those dark things it's being used for will just be a small portion of daily transactions. Because As long as there's neutrality and both bitcoin and the internet have this in common, there are going to be both great and bad things but it won't matter if it reaches mainstream use.

I think the internet has overcome the association with bad things because it is also associated with many more good things, and has increased the standard of living for so many throughout the world. Pretty much everything is somehow associated with bad things, the question with bitcoin is are there enough good things that it is associated with/is used for to overcome the bad.....