Topic: The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same - page 2. (Read 1668 times)

Are you still running an English-teaching school in Japan (or Korea or where was it?)


To be fair, that was a well-written song. I'm being serious (which I know may be hard to believe because I'm being so sarcastic in this thread). But I used to listen to that song relatively often, which is why I remember it. I can't find the damn link anymore.

That's your answer? That there's some service acting as an exchange, taking a cut as they convert your BTC to an actual liquid currency to buy goods and services?

Bitcoins are soooo much more liquid and widespread than I imagined. My bad.

A lot has changed since then. I'm in a band now.

It always cracked me up to watch people complaining about things and not doing anything about them though. If your point was "Bitcoin is a failure because it hasn't brought down the governments yet", then I'd agree with you on that one. Bitcoin will never "bring down governments" and people who think it will will continue to make it a failure.

Weren't you the self-appointed arbiter who planned to open up some sort of Bitcoin mediation, and then realized you were in over your head and got boooed out of the forums? You know, Mr. Wright, "you were always on my mind."

You can buy anything on the Internet with bitcoins.

Do you plan on ever buying anything on the Internet?

http://www.bitspend.net

Who said it would only take 2 years? People need to change first for ideas to grow, and ideas need plenty of time to be debated and perfected. The smartest people in the world aren't even involved in Bitcoin or possibly even aware of it yet. Stop worrying about the price of Bitcoin and just use it.


Edit: in second reading, it seems your point was that "bitcoin still isn't a currency". To that I say, "Good!" because it would in fact make an awful one at that.

That wasn't much help, since the best that search came up with was a smattering of random business that accept Bitcoin, nearly all online. Again, its not much more than alpaca socks, some domain space, and perhaps now some mail order cookies. Wow. Two years of evangelizing and old-world-order-crushing technology and that's all I get? Damn, Bitcoin just sells itself!

Here, let me help you with that.

I joined awhile back, when Bitcoin was $5 and shortly before the (first?) bubble when it rose to $30 and then deflated back down. I promptly forgot about Bitcoin till I heard of this meteoric rise to $250.

Found my old wallet, and cashed out. That was a nice surprise.

But, after having read some of the recent threads here, the predictions and analysis, for those of you who've joined more recently, let me tell you this:

Apart from a bit more polish surrounding wallets (i.e. Blockchain.info), NOTHING - I mean NOTHING - has changed.

The same confused, disorganized agenda behind Bitcoin exists. There's been no coalescence of goals and idealogy behind Bitcoin to make it anything more than the faux-currency it was back then. Where are the businesses accepting bitcoin? Am I still relegated to buying drugs (Silk Road), some falafel at Mezze Grill, or some alpaca socks?

It's been nearly two years, and a pathetic level of progress. This is still the same motley crew of anarchists buying into the anti-establishment ideology, nerds who get their jollies from thinking they are a part of an emerging new "paradigm", and thieves manipulating and attacking the market.

Some of you may not have had the benefit of perspective, but I can tell you: this is still just a little casino, and nothing more.