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I'm not really seeing the parallels. People having strongly held beliefs that they advocate for does not make something a 'religion'. This seems more like an ad

I'm not really seeing the parallels. People having strongly held beliefs that they advocate for does not make something a 'religion'. This seems more like an ad-hominem non-argument.

igorkraw 5y ago
-religion /rɪˈlɪdʒ(ə)n/ noun the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods. Scratch the last bit, since it's a tautology. How many people in the crypto space proclaim that "decentralisation" or "smart contracts" or "hard" (i.e. deflationary) currency will fix everything and make bitcoin the new world currency and grant its loyal hodlers everlasting wealth? What percentage of them actually had a concrete idea on how that will happen? We've had schisms (BTC), there's a mythological originator (Satoshi) and a possible historical counterpart (Hal Finney if I remember the name correctly?) as well as anointed saints and "first disciples". There's even new prophets (ethereum founder) proclaiming the last interpretation wasn't wrong but incomplete. I've got to say, I see it rhyme. While I wouldn't say that everyone in the space treats crypto like a religion (probably), I'd wager for decent amount of people that description is a useful model
moduspol 5y ago
To be honest, I'm seeing parallels in the opposite direction. There's a reason we don't have anti-golfers, or threads over and over again rehashing how dumb it is to have 18 holes, or about the number of senseless injuries sustained while golfing, or how it's too expensive to golf. It's because people who aren't interested in golf don't feel a need to prove to others how bad it is, or to force golfers into justifying how good it is. People who don't golf just kind of focus on other things. But Bitcoin and cryptocurrency seem to be different.

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I'm not really seeing the parallels. People having strongly held beliefs that they advocate for does not make something a 'religion'. This seems more like an ad

by errantmind 5y ago

I'm not really seeing the parallels. People having strongly held beliefs that they advocate for does not make something a 'religion'. This seems more like an ad-hominem non-argument.

igorkraw 5y ago
-religion /rɪˈlɪdʒ(ə)n/ noun the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods. Scratch the last bit, since it's a tautology. How many people in the crypto space proclaim that "decentralisation" or "smart contracts" or "hard" (i.e. deflationary) currency will fix everything and make bitcoin the new world currency and grant its loyal hodlers everlasting wealth? What percentage of them actually had a concrete idea on how that will happen? We've had schisms (BTC), there's a mythological originator (Satoshi) and a possible historical counterpart (Hal Finney if I remember the name correctly?) as well as anointed saints and "first disciples". There's even new prophets (ethereum founder) proclaiming the last interpretation wasn't wrong but incomplete. I've got to say, I see it rhyme. While I wouldn't say that everyone in the space treats crypto like a religion (probably), I'd wager for decent amount of people that description is a useful model
moduspol 5y ago
To be honest, I'm seeing parallels in the opposite direction. There's a reason we don't have anti-golfers, or threads over and over again rehashing how dumb it is to have 18 holes, or about the number of senseless injuries sustained while golfing, or how it's too expensive to golf. It's because people who aren't interested in golf don't feel a need to prove to others how bad it is, or to force golfers into justifying how good it is. People who don't golf just kind of focus on other things. But Bitcoin and cryptocurrency seem to be different.