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I think this can be said about human societies in general. :-)

• wpietri 11y ago
  I think the difference for me is that most societies are built around substantial commons. Shared places, shared resources, shared interests. The Bitcoin community (if that's even the right term) seems to be built mostly of people who are somewhere between skeptical of and averse to that. And their commons is much narrower than, say, a town or a city. It may still be workable, but I think Bitcoin has challenges other communities mostly don't.
  • TeMPOraL 11y ago
    Bitcoin community wants to promote the technology so that it - and the community - is respected by good men, even though all the most obvious applications of it range from "quite evil" to "ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in Dante's Inferno". In a way, they have it even harder than proponents of nuclear energy - the latter can literally power the world in a clean way, but it took just two bombs early on and a few relatively minor failures (compared to other industrial accidents) to pretty much shelve the technology for good.