an autonomous entity has escaped form a super secret scientific research facility and is now propagating itself in the wild. the entity is able to infect the mind due to its intense shininess. once infected the subject is motivated into showing it to others. the entity is non-physical giving it the ability to move at the speed of light. the entity has a code like the dna in a virus. the entity is an idea with wheels and gears like a machine.
i'm sorry i drifted off there, what was that about bitcom being a scam?
I enjoyed your little story, but my $0.02 is that your statement: "the entity is able to infect the mind due to its intense shininess" is hogwash. Bitcoin is a tool, really, nothing more, when you get down to it. It is a tool to allow free and unrestricted, decentralized exchange of currency. It was created by humans, reviewed by many many other humans, and propagates due to many many humans' desire to exchange currency freely between one another, without the use of a single trusted third party entity, but rather through the combined transparent outputs of the source code that was originally reviewed by many humans and ultimately spread willingly through the compilation of the code and execution thereof on thousands of computing units throughout the world.
Have you read the whitepaper? Doesn't seem like S. Nakamoto was trying to infect anyone with anything, but was rather suggesting a method that humans might more easily trade currency freely and without the use of a trusted third party.
Have you read the whitepaper?
