Topic: questions about government, bubble, decentralization (Read 470 times)

I think some of the questions are commonly asked and it is definately worth it to answer them. I will answer them the best I can - at this point I spent hundreds of hours researching this topic, though I still might be wrong so I encourage others to correct me.


You can't "kill" bitcoin - there is nothing to kill, no central authority and it's done like that by design and on purpose - a lot has been learned from how Internet works as it was developed as a technology which must survive nuclear bomb attack at a point.
US passed a bill which allows existence of virtual currencies: http://www.fincen.gov/statutes_regs/guidance/html/FIN-2013-G001.html

To effectively kill bitcoin you have to shutdown entire Internet (or at least large portion of it), that is by design not possible (see above). If it would happen anyway well, buy rather guns than Bitcoins

You can sort of try to kill Bitcoin by making it illegal - that is not happening (see fincen.gov above), though it would probably won't be too effective. So to save making fools out of them selves they tried different approach. Did war on drugs, war on terror, war on piracy, war on ... actually bring any results? I don't think so.
Btw. Here is example of the fool who clearly does not have a clue how things work nowadays: http://www.capitalfreepress.com/3181-senators-inadvertently-send-thousands-customers-silk-road/

The question always is - who would benefit from it? Current adoption is way below 1% of population. So I don't think it makes any sense.
Plus as big money are starting to pour in (search the forums for "fund") they would probably won't bee too happy about it and no more support for next elections


Yes you are correct, if there is no unexpected event (World War 3) I strongly believe in these valuations and they will eventually happen as masses adopt Bitcoin.


Decentralized in a way that each computer can act as a bank as it holds the whole database of all transactions - yes at this point it is in volume of Gigabytes (GB). I have no idea what your technical skills are, but take it on faith that it's a lot of data.

You can stop them by learning programming skills . But it's not really necessary - there are already plenty people taking care if it. I would say - when you buy an airplane ticket - do you understand how it works before you get in the airplane? Or how about Microsoft Windows? The general consensus is that if the software is opensourced (which bitcoin is) it is usually way more secure then the proprietary (closed) source.


You are welcomed, hope it helped.

I have some questions for the pros here:

1)Why do you think the governments will not kill bitcoin and just let it grow? Currently they are much more stronger than the bitcoin community,
 and bitcoin is a"Clear and Present danger for them" they are not stupid.

2)And regarding the former question, how can you tell that this current rise of value is not actually a planned government bubble?

3)On the Other Hand if bitcoin is the future money and 1 BTC will be worth 100,000$ or more, mathematically,is it possible NOT to rise that fast at some point in time?

4)A bit off form topic but i got to ask, the fact that bitcoin is decentralized is not clear to me because there are only a few who control the software so isn't this like being central authority? they will decide how will the next upgrade be won't they? if I look at the code and see that they are doing something wrong and unfair, what can I do about it? how can I stop them?


Thank you all!