So yes it can be done. Is it good for "Bitcoin"?
It may be. There's an awful lot of bitcoins owned by relatively few early adopters. If Bitcoin is to succeed, a large chunk of those bitcoins need to be extracted from those early adopters and spread amongst the general population.
It seems these early adopters have had a pretty good understanding of where the future is going. I for one would be happy to see these kinds of people get incredibly, filthy rich, so they can invest in awesome new businesses and technologies. Now that would make a change away from the current status quo, where the financial system only benefits parasites and sociopaths.
IMO most Bitcoiners are the most sociopathic people there are.
It takes a *special* attitude to strive after a system where economic status is derived only by a unchangeable, unchallengeable, non-physical ledger.
Maybe it would change your mind if you didn't spend so much time in the speculation forum?
I refer to the Bitcoin early adopters, not the current get rick quick types. People like the the guy responding to this
Reddit topic and there are many other examples.
right on dude. That guy in the reddit post talks my heart. I have several magnitudes of coins less than him, but my thinking is very similar nevertheless.
I agree with your earlier post that a world "financed" by these early cryptogeeks is probably better than what we have now.
There is
however a distinction to the status-quo that is much more important in the long run: Bitcoin has a limited supply.
The money will disperse over the long run (rich people spend and invest, borrowers default). It's seemingly easy to argue that interest rates effect a concentration of money over the long run (I used to think this).
But this is not true in a free market using an inelastic money supply. Wealth will actually flow to the people offering good products and services in such an environment. We did a good first step to enable this with cryptocurrency and the free market should follow. So I also agree with the reddit poster that Bitcoin will grant access to the global market for the currently poor (think System D, see
this TED talk) and make for a fairer level playing field.