at the end of it all it won't matter if they are parasites or angles! this is what it is. there is always some kind of balance in the market between what you call "parasites" and others such as "day trader parasites", "weak hand idiots", "manipulating whales", "wall street and bank evils" and "daily spending contributing others"!
and that balance will result in the price that you see at any time. complaining about existence of a group will accomplish nothing in my opinion. they will exist whether we complain about them or not.
Yes, I agree with your point, but my post was intended as a thought-out objection against the rhetoric prevailing across the forum that holding (or hodling) is a good thing on its own, which adds a lot of value to crypto. It doesn't, and in this post I'm trying to explain why exactly. In other words, I'm trying to separate the wheat from the chaff, to reveal who actually adds or creates value and who doesn't. If someone doesn't want to add value but plans only to take that value after it has been added by someone else, who are they really?
And I'm not complaining, I'm just making things clear and showing them in their true light and perspective. See the difference?
lets start from ourselves. what have YOU done for bitcoin?
for instance i am running a full node and contribute to the decentralization of the network.
Honestly, I'm not so much into bitcoin these days since I'm more interested in litecoin, and specifically because it has more value for me as an everyday means of payment. I often have to convert LTC to fiat before buying things like groceries and whatnot, and believe me I would be happy to pay with crypto directly. By and large, I use crypto to avoid using banks as much as possible.
Apart from that, I'm also using a plain vanilla litecoin-qt wallet, and if that counts as running a full node, then so be it.
