Quote from: rocks on December 03, 2014, 07:54:42 PM

Quote from: Adrian-x on December 03, 2014, 07:33:00 PM

the state is just a bunch of people doing what they know to be good, a little education and an investment in Bitcoin will help align self interest with public good and heal any perversions we see today.

Could not disagree with this more.

Gold bugs have spent 100 years knowing they are "right" and waiting for everyone else to education themselves understand history and see the light. Never happened.

In the meantime the state resorted to banning private possession of gold for almost 2 generations in order to break the public's view of gold as money. The state will fight Bitcoin just as hard.

Im saying the same thing as you said above, I'm in agreement

Quote from: rocks on December 03, 2014, 07:48:54 PM

Quote from: brg444 on December 03, 2014, 06:52:59 PM

One thing we have going for us though is greed. If there is money to be made holding your wealth in Bitcoin then people will gravitate toward that option.

Had the exact same thought last night. If a new form of sound money is created from nothing, the potential for the largest transfer of wealth in possibility humanity's history will be so tremendous that human greed will have the strongest influence of all. It would only take a few senators on the right committees aligned to Bitcoin's speculative waves, to gum up state attempts to block Bitcoin. They would position themselves as the good guys, but it would really just be greed.