Topic: Bitcoin, the Religion?! (Read 4362 times)

Exactly, it is just an currency, let it be only a currency, don't make it a religion, as today you are thinking bitcoin as a religion and tomorrow if we have some better currency then we would simply forget bitcoins, so lets be practical and treat bitcoin only as a currency and not a religion.

So is your religion bitcoin then? If yes, what would you do to worship to your 'god'. Believe in something doesnt mean that you should worship it. I think people here dont understand what the religion is.

For me it is like a religion! If one really believes in digital currencies, it's mission will be to help the future establishment of the currency. Anyone who believes in Bitcoin is always trying to make people understand its true potential.

That depends. The mining process is based on randomness, and countless theological scholars argue that randomness is insight into the mind of god. And empirically, it reflects the structure of the universe.

It will be religion for the lovers of the money. Those who love the money will love this kind of new money and will do everything to have some. That kind of people love to diversificate their investments and bitcoin will be so,e new interesting investment. Is told that the value of bitcoin will be higher and higher in time and even this is not known for sure they will try to diversificate and have some (consistent some) bitcoin to try the destiny.

That depends from the kind of people. There are people that made religious about any kind of things. If some of they will be affected to much about bitcoin they for sure will build a church in their home with the ASIC in the center of it and where will pray five time in a day that difficulty will not be increased and that they will have more and more bitcoins.

Just let people do what they want, like make a religion, become a prophet, legalize same marriage, do abortion, do drugs, or etc. The most important point for world people nowadays isnt religion nor god, but human rights. With human rights, anything can be made.

1- In the beginning, Satoshi created Bitcoin and the BTC protocol.
2- Now the coin was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of Satoshi was hovering over the waters.
2- And Satoshi coded a blockchain, and there was a blockchain.
3- Satoshi saw that the blockchain was good, and he separated cryptocurrency from fiat currency.
4- Satoshi called the light "Bitcoin", and called the darkness "Fiat". And there was evening, and there was morning - the Genesis Block
And so sayeth the prophecy. Amen. 

what?

religion is something that human beings need to have and believe in order to justify their actions , Christians , budisdas , judeus.Nao have a group that recruiting and preparing terrorist attacks constant people, only do so because they believe in something , not to be famous only because they see this religion the solution of their problems or the company envolvente.Nao comparing religions because it can not do so , the Templar knights killed to protect today still kill , but to demonstrate poder.Se bitcoins were conceived in the time of the alleged gods now the world currency would be bitcoins ? Previously bought a product with other products , until create the currency .Our bitcoin can take today again the role of the exchange of products.

in the End bitcoin is like even like an esoteric thing...

If you think the Credit Card companies are evil you will hail your Bitcoins...


Just like if you think you need special Water every day because the regular one comes with evil harmful things in it.

Bitcoin is far more worthy of a cult following than any of the bronze age Myth-Books most theists adore.

OMG your post made my day

Will the prophet Satoshi come back after 2000 years? And will it bring doom to the heathens and heretics engulfed in the tentacles of the fiat devil?

Actually, there are brain scans that prove this. And it also proves that you didn't read the article in the OP.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/apple-causes-religious-reaction-in-brains-of-fans-say-neuroscientists/

Everything is based on beliefs on this world. If you don't believe in stuff they have hardly any value.

Guys can just throw away their gold bars into a volcano, if they dont believe in gold's value.

i always think that bitcoin is not religion its like passion
so what about your hobby for example you reall like using iphone so do you think apple is religon?
oh cmon guys its totally different

And when I read the bible I feel like I'm reading a fiction novel written by schizophrenics, but that doesn't disqualify it as a religion. You should be glad that you are not affected by this, although seeing it purely as a vehicle to enrich yourself is a bit shortsighted.

The point of the article is to arrive where you already are, in a secular analytical perspective devoid of such apparitions of the mind. Absolutely no meaning is universal, and the article most certainly didn't state that it is.

You're already where the article is supposed to lead people who have been blinded by spirituality. By denying it I guess you encourage more people to stay in their belief system (Bitcoin), which then again benefits you financially.  

Not that there's anything bad about that, but there's a staggering amount of people who perceive Bitcoin as a religion. I wrote this article because I was tired of seeing them, debating them, and having to deal with irrational behavior. I felt like someone finally had to address it. Cryptocurrency cults and personality worship cost a lot of people everything they owned. Paycoin was a vacuum of hundreds of thousands of dollars senselessly burned. Some people convinced their grandparents and parents to buy, with disastrous results (like not being able to pay medical bills).

The most bizarre reactions here are the Christians who didn't read the article, and feel the need to defend their own religion and god. Do you feel that threatened by Bitcoin? I don't see such posts in threads about Islam or Judaism or Hinduism... but somehow this draws them out. Why? Also, why does the catholic church feel the need to brand bitcoin as the "mark of the devil"?

It wrong because bitcoin means something different to different people. The idea that meaning is universal is fallacious.

I can't be bothered to go into all the different things that bitcoin "means" to people but to some people its just something to make money off. To be honest I'm pretty much one of them. I do "believe" in bitcoin to some extent but I just mostly see it as a vehicle to enrich myself.

When I trade bitcoin I could be trading stocks, or pork bellies. I certainly don't "believe" in stocks, still less in pork bellies in any "spiritual" sense.

It's a little bit less of a religion, but yes.

The prophecy will soon reveal itself, and we shall all take our rightful places on the moon Verily To the moon!!! , it is written