Topic: How Many Bitcoiners are Mentally Ill? - page 5. (Read 8761 times)

Mental illness is defined by the government/death(pharma) industry these days.

rpietila you've been quoted, you better be correct.

You give me 100:1 odds, I am willing to bet you BTC1 that it is worth $1,000,000 USD before 10 years have passed. 

Or maybe a 1:100 minority is enough to qualify as "mentally ill"... I heard that the U.S. incarceration plan has 8 million names in it. That has to be about 10% of the literate adult self-supporting males in the U.S.

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

― Apple Inc.

Just briefly glancing through here it seems like anywhere from 15-25% could be diagnosed as morbidly paranoid, with 5% of that as full bore schizophrenia. There's also a great deal of mania in this forum, with the other subforums exhibiting mania/depression or both depending on the subject. It's difficult to parse through a forum but it just seems like an unusually large number of posters here are suffering from some combination of narcissistic/victim personality disorder, either resulting from social isolation, autism spectrum diseases, substance abuse (perhaps bitcoin's primary use) or PTSD.

Has anyone elucidated the link between bitcoin and mental illness? How many people here got involved in bitcoin because you couldn't function in the normal economy, or in society at large? I'm seriously asking because the idea of a currency that specifically draws the unstable members of society is fascinating from a social psychology perspective. There are certainly a very high number of sociopaths leading the bitcoin community (which explains the continuous scams and thefts of the beta member resources). Anyway if there are any normal members here you might want to commission a social worker to survey this forum for potential suicide/homicide risks or a psych researcher to try to and determine what factors of the bitcoin system are selecting for dredges. Cheers!  

I struggled a little concerning how to reply. Does anyone of the readers see the irony, or am I wasting my time here?

8 million - - has to be about 10% of the literate adult self-supporting males in the U.S.

Talking about $1.000.000/BTC is mentally ill.

But the purpose of elections is not to select the most competent, smartest, more honest, etc.  It is only to measure how much support each candidate has, and convince the minority party that they are indeed a minority.

The alternative to elections is each guy tries to shoot those of the opposite parties, until one side has the clear lead , and the oppositors who still survive choose to obey the winner rather than die.

This alternative method is often adopted when and where people get disenchanted with democracy.  Experience shows that this method does not give better government than a democratic election, but takes absurdly longer to proclaim the winner, and is absurdly more expensive.

It is not for nothing that the ancient Greek were regarded as exceptionally smart people.

When BTC is $1,000,000 per coin, will exchanges list the full million, or will they decimalize it?

How many Wall St workers are mentally ill?
How many Silicon Valley tech heads are mentally ill?
How many government bureaucrats are mentally ill?
How many psychologists are mentally ill?
Welcome to reality.

I for one don't recommend spending too much time on this or other political/economic/financial/conspiracy websites than is healthy. As with all things. Bitcoin, arising from the internet mainly, consists more so of internet-dwellers who are used to sharing and posting and linking on forums to their heart's desires. Other people in other spheres probably read books, study, talk with their friends, and maybe get drunk and move on with things. But internet-dwellers I think have difficulty functioning outside of the basement very well.

MUST WE TRUST A PAYMENT SYSTEM INHABITED AND OPERATED LARGELY BY THESE BASEMENT DWELLERS??!!

Would-be video game developers, network admins, tech support people. If these are the people largely participating with Bitcoin then the project will surely have problems. Financial education, policy education, sales, risk management, legal assessment ability. I can think of many competencies that this set of people would lack that would be required to operate a successful payments network. So I hope that Bitcoin is contributed to by more than just these types. I also hope that the bitcointalk forum is a poor representation of the participants involved.

People can accurately grade others who are less knowledgeable in the field than them. They cannot accurately grade themselves, nor anyone who knows more than them.

i) This is a strong argument against the system of popular vote, because it makes it impossible to get a meaningful percentage of good candidates elected and therefore assures a groupthink outcome suspect to external influence.

THIS IS A BUNCH OF MOTHERFUCKIN' BULLSHIT! I KNOW THAT THIS THREAD IS ABOUT ME. Just wait till my doctor hears about this.