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Now it's "Who cares, it's all for publicity".

• Karunamon 13y ago
  First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. I think we're roundly into stage 2 now.
  • rosser 13y ago
    Wait, we're comparing Satoshi-san to Gandhi now?
    • Crito 13y ago
      If we restrict ourselves to making comparisons only when the two things are similar in every regard, then there is literally no point in making a comparison.
      • rosser 13y ago
        Agreed completely. I'm more saying that I don't see any similarity between BTC and the Indian independence movement. It would be like me quoting Elie Wiesel when my boss is being a dick.
        • Crito 13y ago
          You seem to be hung up on comparisons between things that have vastly different magnitudes or severities. The effort to get bitcoin widely accepted as a currency is "a struggle". The Indian independence movement was a struggle. Are these two struggles similar in severity, importance, or necessity? No, of course not. Do they need to be, in order to reference that quote? No, of course not. Why is it not necessary that these two situations be equivalent, or even similar, in that respect? Because he was not saying that the effort to get bitcoin widely accepted is as important as Indian independence.
          • rosser 13y ago
            The effort to get bitcoin widely accepted as a currency is "a struggle". I don't agree; instead, I'd call it "an effort". It would be "a struggle" if people were risking going to jail, or being executed, or otherwise suffering non-voluntary consequences (like losing money for having speculated in BTC) for their participation, or were somehow barred from enjoying the same benefits as everyone else because of some imposed inability to participate. As it stands, absent other, already specifically illegal activity (like the proscribed forms of tax evasion I suspect a great many Bitcoinophiles engage in, or using their cryptolucre to buy controlled substances), the greatest risk BTC owners face is selling at a lower exchange rate than they bought at — or maybe having their wallet stolen. IMO, to call that "a struggle" devalues the word for the other things we call struggles, like independence movements, overthrowing tyrannies, civil rights, or marriage equality.
        • gnaritas 13y ago
          > I'm more saying that I don't see any similarity between BTC and the Indian independence movement. There doesn't have to be; that quote applies to a lot more things than just the Indian independence movement.
          • srdev 13y ago
            > There doesn't have to be; that quote applies to a lot more things than just the Indian independence movement. There's also a lot of things it doesn't apply to, and its pretty much impossible to tell which things it does and does not apply to a priori. Its pretty much why the quote is stupid when uttered by anyone other than Ghandi.
            • gnaritas 13y ago
              It applies to whatever the speaker wants it to apply to; your arguing against someone using a quote is quite simply absurd.
    • interstitial 13y ago
      Technotopianism at it's finest.
    • baddox 13y ago
      No such comparison was made. The fact that Gandhi is the source of that quote is irrelevant to the discussion.
    • pera 13y ago
      You mean Satoshi-sama
  • srdev 13y ago
    Vastly over-used quote. I've heard that more from people who have eventually gone on to lose than winners. Sometimes the people being laughed at are just clowns. Also, bitcoiners are not even in the same ballpark as Ghandi.