Seeing all these "advertisements", I quickly realized that instead of spreading the word about BTC, we should HUSH! and not speak a word about it!
I'd like to quote satoshi here:
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WikiLeaks has kicked the hornet's nest, and the swarm is headed towards us.
Although attraction from unwanted sides is part of the picture, there is an even bigger, more important reason to keep this amongst us, at least as far as possible...
The bigger reason is that a quick spread of word favors the already patronized "early adopters" even more!
But not only that - early adopters are benefiting in a compounding, exponential fashion, widening the gap between the "haves" and the "have-nots" even more. If the reason for this is not instantly obvious, let me explain:
say you own 10 BTC for $15 each, giving you $150. An early adopter owns 1000BTC for $15 each.
Now word spread and noobs start buying into BTC, making the price rise to say $20 for a coin.
This situation massively favours the early guy, making him a profit of $5000 USD, while the "little guy" only earns $50 USD. Since mining and buying is equally costly/difficult for both of them, we can assume that under the condition of both players continuing to mine/buy, time will even the gap.
If both manage to accumulate 1000BTC over the same period of time, the early adopter will have doubled his position (1000->2000 BTC), while the late adopter will have increased his position more than a 100-fold (10->1010 BTC). Therefore the ratios (1:100) will be more approximate (≈1.01:2 ).
If we can manage to hold out for long enough, maybe we could even the playing field at least a bit.
Media attention is the last thing late adopters want!
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