the third week of April from @RKHilbertSpace on twitter.
Topic: When and how did you find out about Bitcoin? - page 3. (Read 6677 times)
Apparently, bitcoin discussion was pretty tightly confined. I think part of the problem is/was that a lot of people have an irrational hatred for it. In some forums, the mere mention is grounds for having your posts mocked or deleted prior to being banned.
I’ve experienced the exact same everytime I brought up Bitcoin myself. I don’t understand where all the hate comes from … When I first heard about Bitcoin, I thought of BitTorrent technology as money system and that seemed very positive to me, all technical details aside. Searching on Google for forum discussions showed pretty much the same thing everywhere. How come this happens?Are people really offended by alternatives because they are so deeply entrenched in this system?
Ironically, later on, people complain about early adopters being rewarded – the same early adopters who were punished for trying to introduce people to Bitcoin.
I think It's a combination of many things with plain old misunderstanding and groupthink probably being the biggest contributors in the past. Right now there's probably a growing dose of jealousy and regret mixed in there too.
At some point in the future when the concept has been broken down into spoon-feedable chunks and repeated through enough sources you'll be able to go back to the same places and have by any number of Google-powered experts tell you just how much you don't know.
Last but not least there's the bitchiness of Internet culture in general. Being positive and genuine about anything is cause for ridicule while jaded sarcasm is normal.
I read about it in late March, probably on reddit. First I mined with my GTX 260, but soon upgraded to a 5870 and have been mining with it as much as possible (only stopping when either a damn pool or Comcrap goes down). I wish I had started with even my 260 in Feb 2010 when I got it, I would have so many more Bitcoin by now! Oh, well, some is better than none, right?
Slashdot. Terribly written story about 2 weeks ago. Apparently I had missed the previous story a couple of months prior. If I had seen it earlier I'd be fake-rich now.
Fake-rich beats "not any kind of rich" =)
I'm actually more bothered by correctly predicting the rise or fall of a number of tech stocks like this one, this one, or this one and having cash to invest but never having the confidence to actually jump in than missing the boat on bitcoin.
Apparently, bitcoin discussion was pretty tightly confined. I think part of the problem is/was that a lot of people have an irrational hatred for it. In some forums, the mere mention is grounds for having your posts mocked or deleted prior to being banned.
I’ve experienced the exact same everytime I brought up Bitcoin myself. I don’t understand where all the hate comes from … When I first heard about Bitcoin, I thought of BitTorrent technology as money system and that seemed very positive to me, all technical details aside. Searching on Google for forum discussions showed pretty much the same thing everywhere. How come this happens?Are people really offended by alternatives because they are so deeply entrenched in this system?
Ironically, later on, people complain about early adopters being rewarded – the same early adopters who were punished for trying to introduce people to Bitcoin.
The Hidden Wiki in January, which was mentioned on The Rogan Boards
Slashdot. Terribly written story about 2 weeks ago. Apparently I had missed the previous story a couple of months prior. If I had seen it earlier I'd be fake-rich now.
I learned about it when I was looking for a way to donate to Julian and Wikileaks.
I’ve read about it on an imageboard in February and was amazed how I could’ve missed this for two whole years.
Reddit, last week.
I feel the same way.
I was actually looking for something like this for a long time, spending lots of time in various distributed computing projects and benchmarking/performance circles even dabbling in creative uses of OpenCL. I somehow missed on Bitcoin entirely.
I actually went back to see if I'd simply overlooked it in one of the feeds I regularly consume.
Nope.
Apparently, bitcoin discussion was pretty tightly confined. I think part of the problem is/was that a lot of people have an irrational hatred for it. In some forums, the mere mention is grounds for having your posts mocked or deleted prior to being banned.
It's fine to have the same daily, circular arguments around Intel/AMD, which Linux distribution is the most elite or spend hundreds of dollars on completely ridiculous liquid nitrogen overclocking experiments that produce nothing beyond bragging rights but talk about bitcoin and mining are completely unacceptable.
I’ve read about it on an imageboard in February and was amazed how I could’ve missed this for two whole years.
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