imagine you are new in this forum and take a look around and read some of the topics. what will your impression be at the moment or if you will also in the last months with all the bitcoinica and pirate and anything else issues. you won't tell me that this is a healthy, non greedy community with a good spirit?
EDIT: and second where is the masterplan for the next months and years. what are the goals of the engineers and developers? or is it still more experimental like Gavin said in an interview and if ASIC comes into the game it is a sign that Bitcoin slowly grows.
I would say it would be easy for any newcomer to be disappointed with any hard project. The internet is just a part of the "
real world" even though people call the offline part the "
real world". (?) Those who fail generally at hard projects will fail in the Bitcoin realm as well. But if they focus on the negative without keeping their eyes on the positive, the end goal, → freedom, will fade in importance. Balance is key.
Your
masterplan question is better answered by Gavin Andresen. I am a budding developer and my goal for Bitcoin is to secure it from being tampered with. The power of ASIC will be a temporary change in the Bitcoin economy in my opinion and perhaps bring that last BTC to the world a bit faster. ☺
To any developer who knows the gravity of what they are doing:
