I appreciate your opinion, and agree with you.

I think that the "BTC bubble" is over...that is, unless people start dropping fiat money in lieu of BTC or something like SR/SR2 again gains mass popularity!

Nope, you did not. It was /u/ethernet .

I'm still learning my way around here and, as you know, the thing that he sent me wasn't saved in my Inbox. I'm sure that, if you ask him, he can send you a copy...or maybe it can be searched for.

In any case, it was an exceptionally-well-crafted reply and was chock-full of citations and links. Good reading--it taught me a lot about BTC (mainly how it was created, by whom, and why) that I had no idea about before.

That's actually a great idea re: CL! I'd even go a step further and insist on BTC payments only if I were a "true" evangelist. Right now I only hold about $600 in BTC and, as I told you, I have that app that tracks its price/volume 24/7/365 and it will auto-buy in certain circumstances--for instance, if BTC goes under $150 it automatically buys $200 worth, if it goes under $200 but not to $150 it buys $50 worth, and so on. It can be set to sell at certain levels but I'm not selling ANYTHING. As BTC becomes more popular and accepted the price will likely only go up thanks to the finite nature of the currency.

The only thing that sketches me out a bit is that it's almost TOO perfect. Time will tell!

I highly recommend everyone interested in the corrupting effect that money has to read the book Capital by Karl Marx.

Capital wasn't anything special, it was really just a big ass description of English and American economic systems. But that description is really chilling...when you see that in the 1830s, money was almost universally considered a means to an end, but the onset of the industrial revolution and the growth of factory-based "scalable production" it became the end and everything else became the means.

Wait - Bitcoin's not working?? Since when, exactly? All the BTC i have sent & received have worked perfectly for the past 4 years or so, which seems rather impressive to me anyway. I'm confused at your stance. Bitcoin is still in its infancy - compare it to email in 1990. Patience, grasshopper. Decentralized exchanges are supremely powerful.

Please explain how Bitcoin's "creation wasn;t transparent" - the blockchain is 100% transparent and public. This is the knowledge that used to be only accessible to bankers/priests/elites, but now is sunshined for all to see and use.

There is no government, there has been no legitimate government since 1913. An election process where the choices are controlled, where the dissemination of the vetting process is controlled 100% is merely a gang controlling the media, dictating the election, thus dictating the "leaders" which now have "legitimacy" granted via fooling unknowing people,, thus allowing these legitamizers of usury to 1. dictate that the banks that put them there in the first place are to be in control of currency creation that has debt attached to it, and 2. rack up as much debt as possible via deficit budget spending.

This fraudulent debt will be negated and the people in charge of the usury scam will be punished. There will be a stock market when I am done with it all, but it will not be functioning as it does now, the majority of the current big players will be rotting in prison for the rest of their lives. Central bankers of all nations and the corporate hydra connected to it will be punished...every last one of them. The network of survelience that has been created to be used against you will be used against them to unravel the details about who did what...from the top dog owners of the central banks to the scumbag kid who worked for a shill factory spreading disinformation for them, All will be held accountable.

and just so we are clear, we're not talking about "Jim" the teller at wells fargo....we are talking about the central banks, the board members and all the "banks" that make up the central banks...the guys in charge of creating the currency supply and then turning it into a credit card...

Well obviously it's not working that way....its not working that way because all the 90,80,70,60,50 year old dumbfucks who grew up as brainwashed sheep under the watchful eye of the media cult machine are kinda fucking stupid when it comes to understanding money....they pretty much got trained to only thing about going out there and "getting" the money after it has been made....and at the same time got trained to never ever look at where the money comes from, who's in charge and how much it cost....so thats great if you want to go back to the dark ages and trade wheat for horse shoes....but some of us understand whats going on and why, and are pretty much sick of it and working on changing it...I hope you will join us....all you need to do to do that is go ..."ya, I want it to be better" and then when the time comes...act, by simply joining us in faith....simply belive along with all the other that the new currency is good and use it....thats all you need to do....when the time comes....so if your with it in principal....when I and my crew have liberated you from the usurers...all you need to do is "believe" and use it.

Modern society need a means of exchange....I'm not going to debate the short comings of bartering...That being said "we" don;t need a way around "money" we need a clean monetary system that creates "real" money that does not enslave humanity to a few people who are in charge of creating debt based money....You need a debt free system created at cost. Then there is no need for bartering if you don;t want to...There is no income tax, there is no fraudulent debt, there is only keeping what you earn....with services agreed on and paid for with apportioned taxation.