Why do decent people accept bitcoins ? Because they see value in it. The whole article goes on to paint every single bitcoin user as a criminal of some sort w

Why do decent people accept bitcoins ? Because they see value in it. The whole article goes on to paint every single bitcoin user as a criminal of some sort while completely ignoring the fact that the title itself is a glaring contradiction of the content. Furthermore, a lot of bitcoin criticism comes from very US centric viewpoints. Consumer protection in the US (for the most part..) is miles ahead of many other places in the world. You can return stuff after 30 days and in some cases even after using things! On the flip side, my CC was fraudulently charged by Greenpeace a few months ago in India and I would've had to jump through some serious hoops (including cancelling my credit card) to lodge a case to recover my money. Considering the amount was small, I decided to just forget about it. But I still pay the 3% charge built into prices that are 'credit card friendly'. Not sure if the article is just trolling because it seems heavy on the criticism but quotes other critics as citations. (eg. Stross) One thing I love about bitcoin is that a lot of folks seem to be very passionate about it. There's some serious fanboyism and there are some serious haters. Personally, I like bitcoin but I don't feel polarized by it the way some people do. I can see why fanboys are excited about it but I fail to understand why the haters are so against it. This is like Mac vs PC or Nintendo vs Sega kind of stuff all over again. I honestly want to hear from people who have actually been burnt by it. (MtGox victims ?) Did they turn into haters ? Or what happened there ? The only cases I know of MtGox victims (guys demonstrating outside the Gox office in Japan) seemed to indicate that they clearly blamed Mark Karpeles/Gox and not bitcoin in general. So why are the Gox victim sympathizers so keen to blame bitcoin ?