So, you too can get butthurt over a simple forum debate and take your ball and go home.
Who's butthurt? I'm just calling out bullshit where I see it. People talking on a forum is not a promotional model. End of.
It merely describes the model by which Bitcoin is promoted.
Except for the part where it doesn't.
This site is promoting Bitcoin. It's likely one of the first things people will see if they start to look at Bitcoin seriously, rather than just believing what they read in the media. Show me where it's saying "hodl" and "to the moon". Bitcoin is not being marketed as a pyramid scheme. End of.
Then it's not a currency, its an investment. So, stop acting as if people will realistically use Bitcoin to transact. You can't have it both ways.
It's a payment platform. If people want to speculate with it they're more than welcome to, but if you want to spend bitcoins as money then you're free to do that too. It's obvious to anyone with a brain that you can have it both ways. Maybe there are too many people here fixated on the price, but it still doesn't make Bitcoin a pyramid scheme. End of.
Perception is reality. Simple as that. What you think or want to happen, is irrelevant as, this investment model, is at the mercy of whether the general public decides to buy in or not.
Your perception is nowhere near reality, but I think everyone can see that. Thankfully that also means what you think and want to happen is also irrelevant, so that's the one thing I'll agree with you on.
Any more cognitive dissonance you'd like to throw out there that can be torn apart with ease?