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They are early adopters of btc, do you think they will let this one slip away from their hands?
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January 28, 2015, 07:24:06 AM
January 28, 2015, 07:07:39 AM
Does anyone here know anything about the politics of these two? Are they libertarians, or just lucky rich kids who bought a shit load of BTC at the right time and now intend to milk it for all its worth?
There are many scammers, many technologists and many philanthropists plus a huge number of greedy get rich quick kids in the is community.
Where do Winklevii fit in?
There are many scammers, many technologists and many philanthropists plus a huge number of greedy get rich quick kids in the is community.
Where do Winklevii fit in?
January 28, 2015, 05:49:40 AM
Funny how they seem to manage to grab magnanimous numbers out of the air like that. Sorry if I seem too skeptical but things haven't gone as well as anyone would have hoped for bitcoin. But then these guys come up with an ETF. Bold move if you ask me but well worth the risk. Let's hope they do succeed in "building infrastructure aimed at legitimizing and securing the currency".
Are there any predictions from serious sources(not anonymous accounts on this forum) that became completely untrue?It is not a surprise that the hopes of uneducated people(I include myself into this group) don't come true.
Well, one can only hope, given bitcoin is what it is...
January 28, 2015, 05:40:23 AM
Funny how they seem to manage to grab magnanimous numbers out of the air like that. Sorry if I seem too skeptical but things haven't gone as well as anyone would have hoped for bitcoin. But then these guys come up with an ETF. Bold move if you ask me but well worth the risk. Let's hope they do succeed in "building infrastructure aimed at legitimizing and securing the currency".
Are there any predictions from serious sources(not anonymous accounts on this forum) that became completely untrue?It is not a surprise that the hopes of uneducated people(I include myself into this group) don't come true.
January 28, 2015, 04:57:05 AM
Funny how they seem to manage to grab magnanimous numbers out of the air like that. Sorry if I seem too skeptical but things haven't gone as well as anyone would have hoped for bitcoin. But then these guys come up with an ETF. Bold move if you ask me but well worth the risk. Let's hope they do succeed in "building infrastructure aimed at legitimizing and securing the currency".
January 28, 2015, 03:45:14 AM
7 years and the estimation of Bitcoin's userbase is only 250,000 persons. Whatsapp is newer than Bitcoin and has 600 million users. There's actually countless examples of tech and products that all acquired more users in their first year than Bitcoin has done over 6+ years.
I have one word for you: media(besides other reasons, why you can't compare Bitcoin to a messenger)
Media? Bitcoin is mentioned more than Whatsapp..
What other reasons? Maybe you should tell PayPal who has 150 million users and they exclusively deal with digital payments.
Reason only 250,000 people use Bitcoin is because its' technology isn't ready for mass adoption (if we had millions of users then we'll have terabyte sized blockchains and hours long confirmations), miner whores who keep on dumping, too many crooks and scammers, et cetera.
well said, I believe there is a cartel which has influence over bitcoin code and prevents any attempt to make it go mainstream by ignoring these blockchain size issues and solutions!
All they want is bitcoin to remain this same size and never go mainstreeam
January 28, 2015, 03:42:46 AM
7 years and the estimation of Bitcoin's userbase is only 250,000 persons. Whatsapp is newer than Bitcoin and has 600 million users. There's actually countless examples of tech and products that all acquired more users in their first year than Bitcoin has done over 6+ years.
I have one word for you: media(besides other reasons, why you can't compare Bitcoin to a messenger)
Media? Bitcoin is mentioned more than Whatsapp..
What other reasons? Maybe you should tell PayPal who has 150 million users and they exclusively deal with digital payments.
Reason only 250,000 people use Bitcoin is because its' technology isn't ready for mass adoption (if we had millions of users then we'll have terabyte sized blockchains and hours long confirmations), miner whores who keep on dumping, too many crooks and scammers, et cetera.
Mass adoption can't occur as long as mass media focus on bad news about Bitcoin. The masses are not tech savy, they don't look into a new technology, just because they are curious. They look into it, because mass media told them to do so.
January 28, 2015, 03:31:55 AM
7 years and the estimation of Bitcoin's userbase is only 250,000 persons. Whatsapp is newer than Bitcoin and has 600 million users. There's actually countless examples of tech and products that all acquired more users in their first year than Bitcoin has done over 6+ years.
I have one word for you: media(besides other reasons, why you can't compare Bitcoin to a messenger)
Media? Bitcoin is mentioned more than Whatsapp..
What other reasons? Maybe you should tell PayPal who has 150 million users and they exclusively deal with digital payments.
Reason only 250,000 people use Bitcoin is because its' technology isn't ready for mass adoption (if we had millions of users then we'll have terabyte sized blockchains and hours long confirmations), miner whores who keep on dumping, too many crooks and scammers, et cetera.
January 28, 2015, 02:43:47 AM
7 years and the estimation of Bitcoin's userbase is only 250,000 persons. Whatsapp is newer than Bitcoin and has 600 million users. There's actually countless examples of tech and products that all acquired more users in their first year than Bitcoin has done over 6+ years.
I have one word for you: media(besides other reasons, why you can't compare Bitcoin to a messenger)
January 27, 2015, 11:27:04 PM
don't you think, since BTC price is sooooooooo easy to manipulate, that robber-barons like these twin douches will just manipulate the hell out of it until its broke?
The EFT just replaces the money they spent on BTC. If they break BTC, its no worries for their pocketbooks
point to winklevii
and before you all start saying "but its a regulated ETF, they cant manipulate..."
its wallstreet, if there is money to be made, they will squeeze every penny out. no matter the ethics, rules, laws, or "love of the technology"
these two guys might kill BTC, and I think they might just have the blessing of the powers that be. The powers have wanted it dead for too long.
The EFT just replaces the money they spent on BTC. If they break BTC, its no worries for their pocketbooks
point to winklevii
and before you all start saying "but its a regulated ETF, they cant manipulate..."
its wallstreet, if there is money to be made, they will squeeze every penny out. no matter the ethics, rules, laws, or "love of the technology"
these two guys might kill BTC, and I think they might just have the blessing of the powers that be. The powers have wanted it dead for too long.
they cant break bitcoin .........even their 1% is not enough
Break like breaking the Internet. FUD and bs news and troll campaigns; lower the price. Creating fake volume by selling coins to themselves; raise the price. When the general public sees how easily this can be done and enough investors get burnt, put the final nail in btc's coffin.
Admittedly it's a paranoid scenario, but after seeing scam after ponzu after blatant rip off and manipulation, not just Wall Street, but everywhere, I am sceptical of these guys.
If you think it can't be done to btc you are wrong. They said forex was too big, and too strong to be rigged too!
January 27, 2015, 11:16:55 PM
7 years and the estimation of Bitcoin's userbase is only 250,000 persons. Whatsapp is newer than Bitcoin and has 600 million users. There's actually countless examples of tech and products that all acquired more users in their first year than Bitcoin has done over 6+ years.
whatsapp is free and doesnt have to overcome the legal hurdles to beat international banking laws and a million other reasons why uptake will be slower
there is no comparison
Bitcoin is free. I don't ever recall having to pay to download the QT wallet, or having to pay to use a faucet. Example fail. Even Cointelegraph had an article the other day about Bangladeshi students converting their BTC freebies to buy burgers for lunchtime.
Besides there's a lot of paid stuff out there with way more users than Bitcoin.
ok ,how much does a burger cost in bangladesh ?
8 cents in the article
http://cointelegraph.com/news/113324/my-amsterdam-letdown-and-why-bitcoins-real-value-may-lie-beyond-the-first-world
They made a quarter of an adult's daily wage just for 15 minutes of work of hitting up faucets. Somebody can move to Bangladesh and live like a king off Bitcoin faucets.
i would like an 8 cent burger sent to a lab to be tested before eating it lol
beef aint that cheap ANYWHERE
January 27, 2015, 11:04:06 PM
7 years and the estimation of Bitcoin's userbase is only 250,000 persons. Whatsapp is newer than Bitcoin and has 600 million users. There's actually countless examples of tech and products that all acquired more users in their first year than Bitcoin has done over 6+ years.
whatsapp is free and doesnt have to overcome the legal hurdles to beat international banking laws and a million other reasons why uptake will be slower
there is no comparison
Bitcoin is free. I don't ever recall having to pay to download the QT wallet, or having to pay to use a faucet. Example fail. Even Cointelegraph had an article the other day about Bangladeshi students converting their BTC freebies to buy burgers for lunchtime.
Besides there's a lot of paid stuff out there with way more users than Bitcoin.
ok ,how much does a burger cost in bangladesh ?
8 cents in the article
http://cointelegraph.com/news/113324/my-amsterdam-letdown-and-why-bitcoins-real-value-may-lie-beyond-the-first-world
They made a quarter of an adult's daily wage just for 15 minutes of work of hitting up faucets. Somebody can move to Bangladesh and live like a king off Bitcoin faucets.
January 27, 2015, 10:53:33 PM
7 years and the estimation of Bitcoin's userbase is only 250,000 persons. Whatsapp is newer than Bitcoin and has 600 million users. There's actually countless examples of tech and products that all acquired more users in their first year than Bitcoin has done over 6+ years.
whatsapp is free and doesnt have to overcome the legal hurdles to beat international banking laws and a million other reasons why uptake will be slower
there is no comparison
Bitcoin is free. I don't ever recall having to pay to download the QT wallet, or having to pay to use a faucet. Example fail. Even Cointelegraph had an article the other day about Bangladeshi students converting their BTC freebies to buy burgers for lunchtime.
Besides there's a lot of paid stuff out there with way more users than Bitcoin.
ok ,how much does a burger cost in bangladesh ?
January 27, 2015, 10:49:23 PM
7 years and the estimation of Bitcoin's userbase is only 250,000 persons. Whatsapp is newer than Bitcoin and has 600 million users. There's actually countless examples of tech and products that all acquired more users in their first year than Bitcoin has done over 6+ years.
Sooo many things wrong with this comparison.
January 27, 2015, 10:47:33 PM
7 years and the estimation of Bitcoin's userbase is only 250,000 persons. Whatsapp is newer than Bitcoin and has 600 million users. There's actually countless examples of tech and products that all acquired more users in their first year than Bitcoin has done over 6+ years.
whatsapp is free and doesnt have to overcome the legal hurdles to beat international banking laws and a million other reasons why uptake will be slower
there is no comparison
Bitcoin is free. I don't ever recall having to pay to download the QT wallet, or having to pay to use a faucet. Example fail. Even Cointelegraph had an article the other day about Bangladeshi students converting their BTC freebies to buy burgers for lunchtime.
Besides there's a lot of paid stuff out there with way more users than Bitcoin.
January 27, 2015, 10:45:52 PM
I appreciate all the effort they are putting out, they take tons of criticism but keep on trucking. But I wish they would stop throwing out market cap/price per btc estimates (even if they truly believe it), it really damages their credibility. when the 2 holding 1% of the pie claim it will go from $300 to $40k....
id be more worried if they said they didnt have any btc and were opening an ETF and a regulated exchange
their 1% will keep them motivated
i bet they will love the day when btc is worth more than facebook -just to stick it to zuckerberg
January 27, 2015, 10:43:36 PM
7 years and the estimation of Bitcoin's userbase is only 250,000 persons. Whatsapp is newer than Bitcoin and has 600 million users. There's actually countless examples of tech and products that all acquired more users in their first year than Bitcoin has done over 6+ years.
whatsapp is free and doesnt have to overcome the legal hurdles to beat international banking laws and a million other reasons why uptake will be slower
there is no comparison
January 27, 2015, 10:40:34 PM
I appreciate all the effort they are putting out, they take tons of criticism but keep on trucking. But I wish they would stop throwing out market cap/price per btc estimates (even if they truly believe it), it really damages their credibility. when the 2 holding 1% of the pie claim it will go from $300 to $40k....
January 27, 2015, 10:38:05 PM
7 years and the estimation of Bitcoin's userbase is only 250,000 persons. Whatsapp is newer than Bitcoin and has 600 million users. There's actually countless examples of tech and products that all acquired more users in their first year than Bitcoin has done over 6+ years.
January 27, 2015, 10:34:21 PM
They invested millions over millions in Bitcoin without realizing that it is crippled by technical limitations and already earmarked for replacement by newer and better technology: fail.
what limitations? earmarked by who?
He probably thinks Bitcoin is a company owned by somebody, don't mind him
I also found it strange that people are ranting about the Winklevoss twins so much when quite simply Coinbase seems to have pulled off what they have planned far better just by doing it instead of talking it up all the time.Actions always speak louder than words, it's like listening to Paypal bitch about how they love Bitcoin so much and are going to implement it then never do anything and Overstock comes along and just slots it in because they were actually getting it set up instead of going on a PR tour.
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