A direct quote from waterlesscloud: >There's some truly transformative tech at the core of Bitcoin. Calling the blockchain technology transformative doesn't pu

A direct quote from waterlesscloud: >There's some truly transformative tech at the core of Bitcoin. Calling the blockchain technology transformative doesn't put him in a bucket with people claiming "it will stop wars, stop corruption, free the people". Even if you disagree with that assertion, his comment was about the discussion culture surrounding bitcoin and certainly didn't deserve any downvotes. (the irony of seeing this particular comment grayed out was what triggered mine after all...) My point is that painting bitcoin skeptics as irrational people What's with the generalizations? I wrote "many people" and not "bitcoin skeptics". I was referring to people who can't be bitcoin skeptics by the sheer virtue of not knowing enough about it to form a coherent argument against it. People who seem to never get tired of regurgitating the ever same tulip bulb and "criminals" trites at every opportunity. People who downvote completely innocent comments like the one from waterlesscloud and make any normal discussion about the subject needlessly hard. Bitcoin skeptics are most welcome (I consider myself one), but you rarely see someone who actually knows a thing about Bitcoin (e.g. 0xFEED) bother posting in amidst the shitstorm anymore.