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Bitcoin fundamentally attracts people who assume existing markets are run in bad faith. It's why there's so much propaganda attacking "fiat currency," and pres
by stonogo 9y ago
Bitcoin fundamentally attracts people who assume existing markets are run in bad faith. It's why there's so much propaganda attacking "fiat currency," and presenting Bitcoin as some kind of ethical imperative.
- askmike 9y agoMost bitcoin people I've met are very much in favor of everything free market, it's the goverments / central banks they don't trust.
- bpicolo 9y agoYou're looking at a group of 6 people that have relevant influence on bitcoin. You've still got centralized trust.
- icebraining 9y agoThe fact that 6 people tried and failed to get their way should imply the opposite, no?
- dexterdog 9y agoFor very good historical reasons.
- 659087 9y agoBitcoin markets are a simulation of what would happen if you replaced the small group of people controlling governments and central banks with a small group of internet trolls, who held 95%+ of all available currency between them.