First you have to know there's a different path and that it's valid. If you notice the disinformation agents embed themselves in a group of "tin foil" hat wearing conspiracy theorists to trivialize their ideas so others don't take them seriously.

It seems on these boards the idea is to disrupt conversation and turn the community agains one another. We must  be careful to not be too harsh with each other. I think the topica of this board is valid. It doesn't matter who the "sources" are.

The point is that if it is not happening, it will. Given the numer of trolls on these boards we can only assume it is.

Exactly why we must educate the uneducated. It will be slow at first, but it will exponentially pick up speed as more and more people share their information and knowledge with others. The information revolution and the development of internet have set the stage for bitcoin to now be availble to the world. But the duty of spreading this treasure of a knowledge with the uneducated lies within each of us. More people we share about bitcoin with the better everyone will be off at the end. I mean this not only as a metaphorical grand scheme sense, but also in a monetary standing terms for every individual involved and invested in bitcoin's success. It's by design.

The most important difference now is that more and more people are becoming aware that something is wrong with the current economic system. They just really need someone to show them what it is that is truly plaguing the current system and how bitcoin can be an answer to many of it's shortcomings.

But do they want to be educated? Have you seen some of the hate videos and comments that's been going around on Youtube? It's like teaching pigs to fly. I think the biggest barrier of all is that Bitcoin is so new, so much of a polar opposite of "normal" currency, and way above the technicality of your average joe, that by the time that they might get the idea, those in position of powers would have already killed it.

ah yes.  but this is how you make real money.  investing when there is fear, uncertainty, doubt.  i don't see how the gubmint gets away with declaring btc illegal.  there is just no good argument for it.  yes, they can huff, puff, stomp around about drugs, sex, porn, assassination but knowledgeable ppl will laugh in their faces.

ppl complain about the whipsaws but what do you expect for a fledgling currency?  as long as the block chain remains intact, we are good.  and i think it will be as i think it would have been broken by now. 

and as for taking over 50% of the network?  have you seen the network figures recently?  insane!  45x the biggest supercomputer in the world?  i think its unbreakable.

These are not mutually exclusive choices, just as the standard "high road" legal poltical PR route does not forbid the "low road" hack-fest.  A top hedge fund manager could personally buy up the entire BTC market with a fraction of one year's salary.  It's also cheap to pay, through back channels, a handful of hackers a million bucks a pop to destroy it.  That's actually far cheaper than lobbying Congress.

I'm also not sure you understand the advantage of a monopoly on money with the Federal Reserve.  The ability to control the money supply, decide who gets access to the discount window and who doesn't... this is more than just getting rich, it's serious political power.  Believe me, banksters don't want to relinquish such control, even for the promise of being bitcoin billionaires.

I expect the banks to take an "all of the above" approach.  And it will still be a pittance to them.

I hope you're right.  If THEY buy in, we'll be headed to $1k BTC soon.

Until God steals it. God invented the orgasm, so for God to bruteforce the bank's private keys and spend all the coins would be trivial!

my sources tell me you are a HOMUNCULI

Until they invent Faithcoin, anyway. Or Pedocoin.


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