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>Well this is an exceptionally cute idea, but there is absolutely no way that anyone is going to have any faith in this currency. Hah!
There's faith among fans of the currency. Others are interested , but that's a long way from faith.
I was a bit taken aback that the tone of this submission was, "See! Bitcoing worked!"
Uh, no one outside of a few small circles has any idea what it is. And any currency as volatile as Bitcoin is broken.
'always be naysaying' is the mantra of about 80% of HNers
Oh wait, what did I just do?
>Well this is an exceptionally cute idea, but there is absolutely no way that anyone is going to have any faith in this currency. Hah!
People should be required to place a monetary bet whenever they make a bold claim in public. I think we would see less comments like this one.
I actually expect I'd have lost the bet if they'd taken it, due to my way too generous terms but that's not the point.
The point was to try to illustrate that "oh it'll crash" is a nonsense prediction.
Be concrete, and put your money where your mouth is, or realise that you haven't actually thought it through.
How many people had the slightest clue that books would be replaced by Kindles, CDs by iPODs, tablets selling as much as laptops. The comments show that people underestimated the impact bitcoin would make. I still believe its just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Bitcoin.
Wow! Books surely have not been replaced by Kindles! Not by a long shot. 40% of readers still use only print books. Here's some random data to back that up. https://www.surveymonkey.com/blog/en/blog/2013/03/25/print-b...
The printed page is centuries if not millennia away from becoming a niche subculture.
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You need to install propietary software to use it.
I use Dropbox as a glorified large email attachment distribution system, touching only the web interface. Edit: obviously not clear enough, I'll try again: Is it true that ' You need to install propietary software to use it '? No.
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Technically true, but we still have the governments to weigh in and try to crush this. Unless they can monetize from BitCoin, they will find a way to kill it - blaming it on funding organized crime and terrorism. "Real world" currency is just too important for them to loose control of it.
Yesterday's congressional hearing made me surer than ever that bitcoin is actually an FBI/ CIA/ NSA/ whoever -made honeypot. Think about it. Bitcoin is robust enough that it could have only been developed with the resources offered by a government, the currency records all transaction histories, and we still have absolutely no idea of who this Satoshi Nakamoto guy is, assuming he's not some government taskforce. Didn…
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Not really: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ram1024
His comments seem entirely reasonable to me. Why are they all grey?