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It continues to amaze me how much hate bitcoin generates. Lot's of assertions in that article based on opinion. That's common with most technologies, but the ve
by joshuak 13y ago
It continues to amaze me how much hate bitcoin generates. Lot's of assertions in that article based on opinion. That's common with most technologies, but the vehemence is not.
We've all seen some real apple haters, or Microsoft, or vi vs. emacs wars, but man the energy that goes into bitcoin FUD is worth a study in itself.
Even worse if you just ask people on the street (I have) does a non-FED controlled currency that has low transaction fees and was easy to send over the internet sound interesting or useful to you?
Everyone, to a man, says yes.
- NegativeK 13y agoYou're framing the question in a Bitcoin positive way. I guarantee a dollar is more useful than Bitcoin, simply because it's far more popular and most people don't care enough about the benefits of Bitcoin to outweigh its downsides. Even if you grant that Bitcoin is based on sound principles, I expect it to remain of limited popularity for the same reason than Plan 9 didn't replace Unix: "the most dangerous enemy of a better solution is an existing [thing] that is just good enough."