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All these incidents give more weight to the conspiracy theory that Bitcoin is a govt. or central-bank project. "See? This is what happens without central author
by dualogy 13y ago
All these incidents give more weight to the conspiracy theory that Bitcoin is a govt. or central-bank project. "See? This is what happens without central authority. Now go back to trusting our currency. While we don't guarantee decades of stable purchasing-power preservation, we're not as volatile and our banks don't just appropriate your deposits outright.." ;)
They wouldn't even have to be behind every exchange and instead could let stuff like this (and off-shoots like LiteCoin etc.) happen quite organically and still prove their point, as clearly visible..
- sanskritabelt 13y agoCan bitcoin guarantee weeks of "stable purchasing-power preservation"?
- dualogy 13y agoAnd how does that question in any way relate to my little digression?
- sanskritabelt 13y agoYou brought up the failure to guarantee "decades of stable purchasing-power" as a failure of g.v.rnm.nt and actual money, which is a claim that you think this is a problem solved by bitcoin.
- dragontamer 13y agoThey'll need to choose a government to blame, before just generically blaming "some government" before I start listening. Last week it was Britain, the week before that it was the US Government. Today, its the Chinese Government???
- sliverstorm 13y agoIn what way do the incidents substantiate a conspiracy? This is exactly what I would expect to happen; electronic scams are older than the internet. Unless I misunderstand, your "evidence" is like saying "the moon landing is bulletproof, impossible to disprove- which is proof they faked it, because if they faked it they would make it as real as possible"
- nwh 13y agoIf a government produced Bitcoin, they probably would have made it work before they announced it. The original Bitcoin was awful. You could spend /anybodies/ coins! The fact that it gained a community is pure luck.
- dcc1 13y agoWhat are you talking about?
- jusben1369 13y agoNo they don't. People who are predisposed to conspiracy theories will view this as some sort of data point. But given their mind is already made up they don't need more weight.
- anigbrowl 13y agoOh please. Every anti-government ideologue I've ever met seems to think that absent government humanity is made up of angels or Rousseau-style noble primitives. There are plenty of scumbags to go round, always have been.
- 001sky 13y agoEvery anti-government ideologue I've ever met seems to think that absent government humanity is made up of angels or Rousseau-style noble primitives. The 'noble savage' [edit:absent government humanity is made up of angels meme] is more a favored construct of the left wing. See, for example the art of Gaugain, Picasso and early modernism. Unless your liberterian ideaolagues acquantences were closest cubists or something.
- tptacek 13y agoThis is like something out of a Markov generator. 'anigbrowl mentions "Rousseau" and here come "noble savages", Gaugain, Picasso, modernism, cubism, and "the left wing". Huh?
- 001sky 13y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitivism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitivism also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Muir https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Muir
- vbuterin 13y agoThe anti-government ideologues I talk to recognize this perfectly well; in fact, it's a core part of their philosophy. They argue that any center of power will actually serve as a magnet for sociopaths and eventually become infested by them, thereby empowering scumbags more than it controls them in the long term.
- sliverstorm 13y agoA specious argument if I ever heard one. For starters, what's with conflating sociopaths with scumbags? Sociopathy doesn't make you a criminal.
- dualogy 13y agoWow! Well I didn't say I subscribe to that conspiracy theory and didn't mean to peddle it either. Just that these incidents work in its favour.. funny how emotional everyone is getting here immediately! :D