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I see this as an article written at the command of some interested parties to limit Bitcoin's adoption. I don't fancy these kind of attacks, but in the current

I see this as an article written at the command of some interested parties to limit Bitcoin's adoption. I don't fancy these kind of attacks, but in the current context I think it may be in the Bitcoin's benefit - the steep growth is not good.

pwg 14y ago
"First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you." Nicholas Klein, Proceedings of the Third Biennial Convention of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (1918), p. 53, (http://books.google.com/books?id=QrcpAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA53&dq=%22First+they+ignore+you%22#v=onepage&q=%22First%20they%20ignore%20you%22&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=QrcpAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA53&#3...) This article appears to be somewhere between the "ridicule" and "attack" stages.
- illuminate 14y ago
  That quote lost a lot of its punch after it was used over and over by parapsychologists, perpetual motion device "inventors" and other groups that went on to deserve ridicule. I'm not saying that Bitcoin isn't going to do interesting things, but being used as the rallying cry of clowns seems to have given it a stigma. There are plenty of ways to promote BTC without claiming that ridicule means that history will absolve you and give a stunning legitimacy to whatever concept.