Hi,

germany is some kind bipolar. I don't want to nationalize anything, but germans love good technology and are often pioneers.

If you look at some old player in the bitcoinspace - All4Btc, bitcoin.de, bitcoincommodities, bitcoincharts, bitcoin24, bitcard, bitcoin wallet for android etc. - you find a lot of germans that popularized bitcoin since 2011. Also if you look at the list of the core developers you find a lot of german names.

But, on the other side: germans are conservative and the majority believes that everything i don't use should be forbidden. Last year there was a study with the result that around 50 percent of the germans are for more rules and prohobitions. E. G. soft drugs like marijuana, gambling, etc. Some week ago there was a poll with the result that more than 30 percent of the germans think it should be prohibited that supermarkets sell christmas-stuff before a deadline. Why the @#!! do they want to tell my merchant not to sell my beloved "Speculatius" in october? This is the sentiment in germany.

Mainstream media shows currently a significant lack of interest for the freedom of speach when the speaker is their reader who don't shares their oppinion. Our only liberal (libertarian) party, the FDP, is dying. The majority of young people dream of a job in the civil service, and nearly no one is interested in starting an enterprise. And regarding the financial affaires - germany has never been a hub for financial services and so on, the majority of the people don't leave their "Sparbuch", even if it brings not more than 0.1 percent each year. Also the majority of people don't use any transaction service than their bank account, etc.

To overstretch it: germany is a good place for early adopter of any kind of technology, but it's a bad place to make any new thing popular. If the whole world was germany, we would have invented everything but never used it outside some strange circles that have become prohibited some years later. Just like the internet ... if I'm right, the first Email was send in germany, the mp3 was invented in germany, and a lot of the technical stuff inside our computers did come from german labs (like the harddrives using spins, the basis of usb-sticks). But not any of this technologies has spread to the public in germany. In real, we reimported it from the USA (I overstrech this, sorry)