Because they're reading the letters in their head: "em em oh are pee gee".  So it's "an em ..."

See also "an RPG" (About 4,350,000 Google results) vs. "a RGP" (About 2,380,000 results).

Dear Mr. Nagle,

I am not a financial expert, but like many here on this forum, I do have a lot of experience and knowledge in IT.

While your credentials and financial advice may be sound, as others have pointed out, your current website seriously discredits you. From the color scheme to the layout, it screams amateur and unprofessional. If you want people to take you seriously, it would be in your best interest to have someone fix it for you.

On to the matter of your post contents, if what you say is true, why would you bother to register on these forums and deign to even give an opinion to the Bitcoin community? I think we all have a hard time believing that you are doing it out of some notion of altruism toward your fellow man.

I think most of us here like Bitcoin, minus the occasional troll, and I wonder if you fall into the latter category. It's about more than just the economics. It's about the technology and the ideals that could potentially move us forward into something new and exciting.

If you don't want a part of it, please leave. No one will be sad to see you go. We probably won't be visiting your site anytime soon either


Sincerely,
One Bitcoin Community Member

I hear bitcoin bubble!? It's time for a bitcoin bubble comic! 

"First, it looks like a bubble."

Yeah, it looks like a bubble. Until you learn about it and realize it's not.

"Second, Bitcoin is supposed to be a currency, but it's actually a speculative vehicle."

Actually, it's both. Just like dollars, gold, etc.

"Third, the organizations in Bitcoin's ecology are very flaky."

I totally agree there. Opportunities abound.

I wasn't clear enough, it seems that the Free Silver Movement was interested in inflation, legislative control and dictating the monetary policy to its liking. I'm quite the opposite.

At this point in time, every nation-state has a central bank backed by a ruthless punitive apparatus, in order to enforce its monopoly on money (medium of exchange & store of value) on its subjects.
Bitcoin seems to be the only thing that could drive those central banks into obscurity if possible, or destroy if necessary. By enabling common folks to interact with each other without the overlords.
Globally accepted, non-inflationary, free of customs controls, ruled by no one -- it's a thing of beauty!

XLF, for one.

n/m

Actually before seeing this "downside", I used to believe this one: http://web.archive.org/web/20040407003135/http://www.tecnilog-service.com/ was the worse site of internet.
Luckily the Web Archive hadn't store the java applets, in its "pure form" you could find there scrolling banners applets along with flash... it looks now definitely better that when it was live.
Took me 5 whole years to find worse, surely deserves an award...

You'd just ruining my day! Not only we come to find within 18000 years BTC will be a Ponzi scheme as we also found that 18000 years from now design will be that low  

Very, very true,

You can't make money in managing "debt", all you can do is accumulate more "debt". Duh!