Topic: Should BTC Opinions be valued based on your BTC wallet size? (Read 1829 times)

The goal for my website: bitpools.com was to include a forum where people discussed various crowdfunding projects. Part of their profile was going to include the amount of bitcoins they had available to put toward the project.

That way, if person X was of the opinion that the project should do one thing and person Y wanted to go another way, if person X displayed only .1 bitcoins and person Y displayed 100 people would find it more likely that the project would go down the path of Y's opinion.

It would cut down on alt coin trolls too.

Obviously you shouldn't claim Obviousness.
In reality you ARE judged by your bank account balance.
If you dress like shit, have no car, look unclean, women do not want to date you.
On the other hand...
If you dress NICE, have a NICE car, and look clean, women throw themselves at you!

Money is visible inn how you act and dress.  Like it or not Money is the ONLY measure of success.

The point is that broke people always complain about rich people and demand equal rights.
Rich people ignore this and compete with other rich people.

If someone does not have 1 bitcoin, their financial advice on earning Bitcoin is worth literally as much as they have, which is not much.

If Warren Buffet talks about how to make money, people listen.
If some broke ass 17 year old, living with his mom, has no car, wants to talk about how to make money, nobody cares.

Lead by example.
You cannot get paid to talk about getting rich if you are poor.
Nobody cares what you think about bitcoin, if you own nearly zero bitcoin.

I find it a troubling sign for the economy when broke losers on the internet spend the most time talking about shit they know nothing about.

I dare you to offer me advice on Bitcoin.
I wouldn't listen, because I might be one of the biggest bitcoin holders on this forum who is active and speaking.
Lost in a sea of worthless posts, and aimless minds that cannot accomplish anything meaningful.

I come to bitcoin talk every few months looking for intelligent people, asking intelligent questions, such as THIS question.
So far by the replies, I can see none have 2 bitcoins to rub together, and therefore don't have the time or ability to code JSON APIs.

This has been a talent search, and you all have failed the IQ test.

you are right, i dont think that bitcoin should actually be regulated more by the people who are more rich because it would be ridiculous

Obviously not, opinion is an opinion at the end, who checks your bank balance before considering your opinion?
This is something you might consider while someone is having a decision so he cannot take a decision if he is smaller than you in terms of finance but giving your opinion has always been a freedom for everyone.

In a truly decentralized system, this would be correct. The issue is that we're not truly decentralized. Despite this push and the claims that we are, all decisions are made by a very small group of people. It's more of like a representative system than anything.

Unfortunately we can`t stop trolls from writing their opinion.

Having lots of btc doesn`t make you right all the time about all topics.

Why do you care about trolls opinion?I don`t care about their theories.

I think everyone has a valuable opinion and everyones opinions should be taken seriously. Just because you have a smaller amount of BTC doesn’t mean you should have less of a say in things. Everyone has valid points and all opinions should be considered.

sure you are right...and like you said effort is required to get there..

Economics affect poor as much as It affect rich so his opinion matters.
Just because you own certain amount of BTC doesn't give your opinion extra weightage.Yes a doctor's opinion is important in health related issues but not drugists or pharmacists who has lots of pills similarly when it comes to btc,dev's opinion matters not the one'who holds large chunks

PoS is the best way to value the opinion of the bitcoin. But PoW is the way to control the bitcoin at the moment.

well thats true, if this happened then bitcoin would be more centralized in my opinion and we should avoid it at all costs to be honest

That's against the concepts of Democracy in general and against the idea of open society more specifically, I think everyone regardless of how much BTC they possess has the option to share there ideas and get as much respect and analysis as a big investor.

Of course not IMO, this in a way takes the value of everyone's opinion, I think everyone should have their own opinion and it should be heard regardless of their bitcoin wallet size. that probably would let bitcoin in the hands of few rich people.

yeah, people who boasts having a lot of bitcoins usually dont have no where near it as they wouldnt tell everyone that

I don't agree with you but i understand your point,you can just ignore poor people's opinion on economics if you don't want them no one forces you to read them,but you can't remove from them the right to express themselves this is against bitcoin philosophy and everyone is equal no matter how rich he/she is.
We already living in a world where rich people's opinion have more value than the other's and this is what we are trying to change if one day i'll realize that bitcoin community is going at the same direction i will sell all my coins and stop using BTC.

No, because it would neither solve the problems with trolling / rubbish posts nor would it be feasible. Face reality: Even rich people can hold stupid opinions, so I don't think you would be satisfied with the results - especially considering that you would also raise your expectations because of the measure. In worst case you would solve the troll problem but also loose a lot of diversity in the debate. I think both rich and poor must have equal rights to participate in discussions. (I admit I might be a bit biased here, since I'm not among the Bitcoin rich.) I think that rich people have more possibilities to get their voice heard anyway.

After all, it's highly unlikely that people will be willing to disclose their Bitcoin holding just to participate in a discussion. I'm pretty sure that such a measure would empty this forum pretty fast.

To improve the quality of discussion it might be a good idea to reintroduce the "newbie-prison" we once had here and to be more strict towards spammy members.

ya.ya.yo!

For me it depends on how he or she acquire the bitcoins.  If you acquire it through investing, trading, earning it like typing and posting, it would be a valuable opinion even not looking on the wallet of bitcoin.  It means that he or she knows exactly how to make or earn bitcoins.  It could happen that he could have a big value of bitcoin but he is just new and just bought it.

No, that's not right either. What you're talking about is still a person who has a lot of money, but just chose to invest it into the mining ecosystem. That does not in any way mean that they're good with the technicalities.

Actually, you could have probably gotten more than that from faucets back in the day due to the low fiat value of Bitcoin.

You never fail to amuse Clown.

Keep up the good work!

I will now leave you people to swim in your conspiracy, idiot talk, and incorrect thinking.  =)

I see a lot of lies.  your "friend" that was gifted 100 BTC..  ha ha ha yeah right.

Bye chumps!