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Bitcoin is like a cult. People praise it for going up, deny anything is wrong when it goes down, ignore the mysterious person who created it, spurn the heathe

• ReverseCold 10y ago
  > ignore the mysterious person who created it Does that matter? It's not like they have any control over it.
  • dghughes 10y ago
    To me it does. How do you know? We don't even know if it's a they a him or her. I understand the blockchain concept but still we can't accept it as infallible. Nobody should be shouted down for asking questions.
    • x1798DE 10y ago
      > To me it does. How do you know? We don't even know if it's a they a him or her. It would be fallacious to reason about the soundness of bitcoin based on the person who created it anyway, given that you are not being asked to trust it based on reputation - they are many better sources of information to use when making a decision about the soundness of the currency. > I understand the blockchain concept but still we can't accept it as infallible. No one is saying to accept it as infallible, and in fact not knowing who created it helps with that sort of thing, given that you have to actually evaluate it for what it is instead of just saying, "Well, X created it and I love everything else they've done."
• eugeniub 10y ago
  By "ignore the mysterious person who created it", do you mean badger random old Japanese men at their homes and publish hundreds of unwanted photos of them?
  • chronolitus 10y ago
    You say that like it's a bad thing