Athene's theory of everything/Why he quit LOL has a good bit on why he left reddit, a good listen.

It's been this way from the beginning, and it's something I addressed in another thread. For newbies this currency is a nightmare, I made a post about it on reddit how everyone should at least get ONE shot. Who has the money now to buy a fancy ASIC rig? Who knows why one person might need a loan, or might need help with people chipping in to refund his life (me for example) why are people so hypocritical and cynical about this? So many people are quick to say "bitcoin is the wave of the future jump on" and then turn around and say "but don't bother me about it". We should be trying to help one another, I don't think the community or BTC in general is going to get anywhere if something like this keeps up. It's kind of annoying that when somebody is actually in need, the community in general thinks it's a scam of some sort. I understand the need to see where their investment is going, but I'm not going to jump through hoops to show somebody that I'm actually trying to rebuild my life.

BTC will never grow up, I'm surprised it's even still around. In 2011 when I discovered it it was 14 dollars a coin, I couldn't buy any then. I had to make a loaf of bread last me over a week. I was worried if I could get my medicines or if I could pay my bills. If you don't want to believe that, that's fine. But that's poverty. I tried with my little atom notebook to mine and it was just NOT profitable. Now? The only way to get btc is if you buy it (600 a btc no thanks) run sig campaigns or I don't know. Nobody is willing to let go and be charitable to newbies or people in general.

I thought we all supposed to help each other here?

All of these new cryptocurrencies and altcoins coming out, who's going to profit off of that? Certainly not me. Certainly not some new guy with a couple of asic's who thought they would be good to run for altcoin. No, those who were early adopters will sit amongst the top while those of us scrapping the barrel looking for help will be left fending for themselves. The rich will stay rich and the poor will continue to stay poor.

once again, you completely missed the point.
in 2011, I was not in the position to do anything but make sure that every living expense I had was spent on making sure I still had a roof over my head, insecurities or taking risks or not, when you aren't sure if your going to be evicted, or if you have running water the next morning, that's when you don't tend to take internet risks on things you don't know much about.

And if I remember correctly, which I usually do. My little Dell Atom Notebook was getting 20mh/s while everyone had their Radeon xyz 20932902's and I was maybe making 0.1 CENT a day. So no, I definitely wasn't making any money off of bitcoin, and no that's not what I would consider rich at all.

I guess then that we have different opinions on what poverty is. I know people have and have had it worse than myself. I've been lucky in the past to at least have a place to call my own and some internet, the computer was actually gifted to me and it was on it's last legs so mining was even risky. Poverty to me is exactly where I was, and now? Now I'm floating trying to keep my head above water and it's not happening. The community is very harsh about people who are in these circumstances, they feel as if people like myself are looking to scam them or other's out of money. That's not the point, I have no idea to scam anybody. I have no desire to, but I would like some help. Making 30 bucks every other week on a sig campaign isn't going to rebuild my life fast. It might not rebuild me at all. But I sure as hell don't think it's fair that people are holding large sums of this and I can't even rub 2 pennies together. Free internet/roof or not, that's not fair. It's not mine. I want something that's "mine" I want to be independent. I don't want to rely on others, but I can't do that by myself right now.

It's not something limited to solely Bitcoin - it is simply a part of human nature. No matter what you do you're going to have haters from people who are scared that a 51% percent attack will lower the value of their holdings and hence get angry and disabused when we get close to that as it has the potential of dropping the price like a stone.

I don't think anything is going to change, no matter what some individuals try to do - you simply cannot change human nature by yourself.

Agree %100