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Jason Calacanis is Wrong: Bitcoin is Greatest Hope for Liberty
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The Bitcoin community needs a serious check. I didn't even make it past that because fuck you for putting your cryptocurrency in the same class as those historic human moments. Who the hell do you think you are?
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Since everyone is running up to criticize me for coming up against BitCoin let me make clear that I vehemently disagree with any kind of assertion that BitCoin is on the same level as the aforementioned triumphs of humanity. I think BitCoin has potential and I even dabbled in mining them.
Feel free to attack me as an enemy of liberty but know that you really suck at disagreeing. Read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Graham%27s_Hierarchy_of_Di... (I'm just as guilty of one of the lower ones, here, but Christ - emancipation? Seriously?)
Bitcoin’s success would be the greatest victory for human liberty since the creation of limited democracy, the emancipation of slaves, or woman’s suffrage. The Bitcoin community needs a serious check. I didn't even make it past that because fuck you for putting your cryptocurrency in the same class as those historic human moments. Who the hell do you think you are? ---- Since everyone is running up to criticize me fo…
Bitcoin’s success would be the greatest victory for human liberty since the creation of limited democracy, the emancipation of slaves, or woman’s suffrage. The Bitcoin community needs a serious check. I didn't even make it past that because fuck you for putting your cryptocurrency in the same class as those historic human moments. Who the hell do you think you are? ---- Since everyone is running up to criticize me fo…
Someone who understands currency, liberty, history, and cryptography better than you.
The important part that all this circlejerking seems to miss is that BitCoin has not accomplished ANYTHING yet. However everybody is ready to chalk it up as a humanity-changing experience with the article's comparison the most nauseating fucking example of worth inflation I have ever seen. If BitCoin ends up disrupting every currency in the world you MIGHT, repeat MIGHT, be able to make that claim.
But not a single moment sooner.
Bitcoin’s success would be the greatest victory for human liberty since the creation of limited democracy, the emancipation of slaves, or woman’s suffrage. The Bitcoin community needs a serious check. I didn't even make it past that because fuck you for putting your cryptocurrency in the same class as those historic human moments. Who the hell do you think you are? ---- Since everyone is running up to criticize me fo…
If the government is robbing its citizens, and forcing the poorest of them to pay a monstrous inflation tax, why is a FREE CHOICE alternative to fight government oppression a threat to you?
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Someone who understands currency, liberty, history, and cryptography better than you.
Thank you for proving my point with an ad hominem. Clearly because I disagree with minimizing the emancipation of an entire race by comparing it to a software project, I am unqualified to make such a remark. What a fantastically logical argument you have there. The important part that all this circlejerking seems to miss is that BitCoin has not accomplished ANYTHING yet . However everybody is ready to chalk it up as…
Also, I am clear in the article that it is only if it succeeds will it be considered that.
http://pb.rcpsych.org/cgi/reprint/21/3/184.pdf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_intelligence_agencies_o...
/trap or die/
Bitcoin’s success would be the greatest victory for human liberty since the creation of limited democracy, the emancipation of slaves, or woman’s suffrage. The Bitcoin community needs a serious check. I didn't even make it past that because fuck you for putting your cryptocurrency in the same class as those historic human moments. Who the hell do you think you are? ---- Since everyone is running up to criticize me fo…
This is hard to grasp, because it's the productive output you don't get and will never see that's at stake. What are you missing out on? Things real people want: better healthcare, cheaper/healthier food, more time away from work with their families. What did you get instead? Multiple housing booms, useless dot com companies, acres of useless tulips fields. I am not saying the latter have no value, but rather that they are pursued because of inaccurate market signals and come at the cost of non-investment in more valuable, life saving and life improving pursuits.
Inflation is just as deadly serious as mass graves, because at massive scale that's what it quietly causes.
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Thank you for proving my point with an ad hominem. Clearly because I disagree with minimizing the emancipation of an entire race by comparing it to a software project, I am unqualified to make such a remark. What a fantastically logical argument you have there. The important part that all this circlejerking seems to miss is that BitCoin has not accomplished ANYTHING yet . However everybody is ready to chalk it up as…
This stuff is legitimately important. Being so dismissive of it is dangerous. We have a real shot at solving a problem thusfar unsolved. Also, its not just a software project, any more than the push for those things were just paper being signed. If you end up reading the article and disagreeing with my points, let me know. Also, I am clear in the article that it is only if it succeeds will it be considered that.
Good grief. That is the most offensive thing I've read on Hacker News in ages. That you would even consider drawing the parallel is nauseating regardless of how you qualify your forward-looking statement. Simply by mentioning it you have already made the assertion and you know that. You are not stupid and you did it on purpose.
Disruption of currency will NEVER be an achievement for humanity on the scale of ending the suffering of a gender or a race. That opinion is seriously flawed.
