Quote from: rpietila on September 11, 2014, 07:13:51 PM

In a free world, people have the liberty to think whatever they want. The proliferation of the concept of "racism" is a 1984-esque thoughtcrime.

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But when people's thoughts start to be judged, then the freedom of thought is no more.

(I don't want to sound harsh, but the indoctrination of thoughtcrime is a sneaky one, and repelling it is a priority.)

That is the rpietila that I admire.

Quote from: rpietila on September 11, 2014, 07:31:05 PM

I can pledge 1000 XMR if you catch me infringing someone's life, liberty or property. Because I believe in voluntary interaction.

Now if you could just learn the math (simulated annealing is nature's only known generalized optimization method) of why top-down organization is "infringing someone's life, liberty or property" then we'd have progressed. I thus claim the 1000 XMR.

I think we require a verbal discussion on this matter in the future...

Quote from: smooth on September 11, 2014, 08:08:36 PM

Quote from: TheFascistMind on September 11, 2014, 10:09:18 AM

And per Peter R's chart, user adoption is what drives the market cap, not investor adoption.

Peter R's chart doesn't show that because: 1. it doesn't show causality, and 2. there is no way to know whether the transactions and/or addresses in use on the Bitcoin network are users or investors. A huge amount of Bitcoin activity is investors, probably a majority. Really, who "uses" Bitcoin? Who used it last November-December when his chart showed both the metrics and price skyrocketing? A better interpretation of his chart is that investors drive market cap!

1. We don't need causality, for as long as it holds, then increasing adoption must increase the market cap. If it fails to hold, then we will have disproven the correlation. Thus it is a worthwhile experiment which some altcoin should have done long ago.

2. Irrelevant. This exemplifies your lower IQ. Fact is investors don't spend as much of their coins as non-investors do, thus more non-investors means more transactions per money supply.

TADA!

Monero will be destroyed. Any one want to wager a bet?