Quote from: TERA on December 14, 2015, 11:34:49 PM

1. Depending on how it plays out, it's not guaranteed that the price will rise. It might collapse instead.

I am fairly certain it is going to rise in the currency collapse scenario.

Quote from: TERA on December 14, 2015, 11:34:49 PM

Restricting it to this one use case of capital flight is pretty narrow minded and an insult to bitcoin. A real bull would want bitcoin to succeed in its own merits.

Yeah, yeah. I do want it to succeed on its own merits, and I also want my dollar collapse.

Quote from: TERA on December 14, 2015, 11:34:49 PM

3. The price would be much higher if bitcoin went mainstream in a thriving economy with government approval, rather than a negative environment with no spending and only storage. Things would be growing, and money would circulate hundreds of times faster.

I see government collapse as an extremely positive scenario for the economy, longer term. This is based on my experience surviving the collapse of the USSR.
Economies don't thrive with government approval, they thrive despite of the government.

Quote from: TERA on December 14, 2015, 11:34:49 PM

4. In the case of hyperinflation, the prices of goods is rising in tandem with the bitcoin rise and your actual wealth in terms of what goods you can buy isn't rising as much, if there is even a supply at all. Meanwhile your neighbors are suffering and starving. Heck, you might just starve too.

This would be very unfortunate, yes. However, it is also inevitable, and the sooner it happens, the less suffering it is going to inflict on the people.

Quote from: TERA on December 14, 2015, 11:34:49 PM

5. You want to live in a negative and harsh world, where everyone is unhappy and there isn't even anything fun to spend your coins on... If you can even find places to spend them because they're probably illegal. Nobodies quality of life is going up, not even yours. For any advantage due to your bitcoin wealth, there is an equal and opposite disadvantage.

Nope, I have no intention of staying in a collapsing country. I'll find a place where it's going to be relatively calm.

Quote from: TERA on December 14, 2015, 11:34:49 PM

6. If people get wind of your wealth, they will hate you and your life is in danger.

True, so I won't be showing off too much, and would find a hobby which benefits my local community.

Quote from: TERA on December 14, 2015, 11:34:49 PM

7. You literally want billions of people to suffer just so you can make a profit. You're just like the capitalist pigs and the government and are against all the values that bitcoin stands for. You are despicable.

"Capitalist pig" is a compliment. It means I am non-violent, and one with nature.
No, I do not want any people to suffer, but that is irrelevant. The people are going to suffer regardless, and the sooner this government Ponzi collapses, the sooner they switch to Bitcoin, the less they are going to suffer.

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