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Bitcoin is broken

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Doug

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Umm...

Duh!!



All the other crypto-currencies will fall victim to the same issues.

It's not that I want to see them fail, but if you don't want a central point of failure, then you can't have any, grandma just buttons.



If you want decentralized anything, it will always fail at the, grandma just button.



So, back to personal responsibility.



When do we talk about that and help each other out with that?



If we want to be decentralized, we have to help our neighbor, not fear them.



Peace

Doug



Freedom is the effect. Are you the cause?
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beunconstrained

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I bought my first Bitcoin in 2011, and it has served me well.  My rationale behind buying it had nothing to do with future value speculation.  It was more to do with how I can pay subcontractors that worked for me in countries that didn't have a reciprocal banking agreement with the USA.  Trying to may a guy who was in Bangladesh, writing code for me that was quality and yet was living in poverty, was insane.  I spent years driving around to Western Unions and having to pay extortion fees with banks to pay him.  Then we discovered Bitcoin and the world changed.  I bought a LOT of it back then.  Thankfully I held onto it, but in 2017 I sold my holdings, wrote Uncle Sam a big check and paid off my house.  



Why did I leave it then?  Because of humans.  The tipping point for me was watching a John Oliver comedy skit on his "Last Week Tonite" show that demonstrated just how f-d up people got over the speculation and price increases, without realizing that this was a tool that could equalize trade and remove govt control from people that just wanted to sell goods & services to each other.  



I still believe in it.  I believe more in the reason behind it, and the importance that decentralization has to our own freedom.  It doesn't have to be Bitcoin.  It has to be something that is truly decentralized, unable to be controlled by any entity and something that can be adopted by the average person.  The fact that most BTC mining is being done in China scares the crap out of me to be honest.  And I read today that Iran just gave BTC mining the thumbs up, which suggests that US government will come down hard on it, citing Iran's use as some reason why it is evil and only being used by terrorists and child molesters.  This is not the truth, and we all know it.  But grandma doesn't and if she listens to the lies being spewed about this, then we lose adoption.



So I'm not sure where this goes, but right now what little BTC I have left is going to pay for some medical tourism I'm needing in Guadalajara, Mexico, where I am heading off to get major shoulder surgery and reconstruction done.  Why?  Because I don't trust the US medical cartels and their 10x charging methods.  I'm almost tempted to get my shoulder surgery done ($9K in GDL vs. $120K in Arizona BTW), and then get a tattoo with a big arrow to my shoulder and the price variation on there for all to see.



Anyway that's my rant.  Hope this opens up some interesting discussion.



Myles
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Davi

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I've lost more Bitcoin then I will ever have again. But for me the question has never been whether Bitcoin was perfect. The question has been "compared to what?" The dollar is broken. So it always always always boils down to "What is the task" and "What is the best imperfect tool"
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Spartacus

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Bitcoin is broken or  will be broken because of the Grandma Just Button?  Say what?  Something that is obtuse is okay but making it simple destroys it?   Like the automobile and the telephone?  What am I missing here?  Do you want to reserve freedom and the integrity of one's own property only to the intellectually elite?  Wage slaves don't deserve to control their own assets?



Or what am I missing or misconstruing?
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