kindfellow92

There are millions of millionaires in China alone that are very concerned about the future security and mobility of their money. Now consider India, Russia, Iran. This isn’t fiction.

Millions, yes it is... the world is a lot bigger place than you think it is.

What kind of relationship do you think the person in question has with the current federal intelligence community?

How about the ability to move large sums of money around the world without having to trust or be limited by any government or bank?

So adding an ex-government official to the board automatically means Dropbox is surveilling you? How does that logic work?

Do you think the only thing that makes cryptocurrencies valuable is transaction rate?

You’re right. I meant, if anything Bitcoin is Google, but it’s not even that.

If you can’t see how Bitcoin provides millions of others a valuable service, you have a poor imagination.

> Not trying to be pessimistic but genuinely curious why so many people make the analogy to the dot com period.

Because most people are not creative nor critical thinkers and the extent of their brilliance is superficial pattern matching. To most people the dot-com bubble seems to fit all the patterns so by their logic it must have the same outcome. If you think critically about the differences of the crypto craze and the dot-com era, you’ll see how irrational it is to make a strong comparison.

Bitcoin is not Pets.com. Bitcoin is Google.

On average it’s likely they don’t given they are using his product.

Something is off if you think he’s an asshole and his users in India don’t.

> He wasn't. He was just giving them an error message after they Tweeted what he wanted.

Did you read the entire post? His service is available to India right now. Their tweets helped make that possible. It’s strange to me that you hate someone who provides a valuable service to people.

Whoa there. Calm down buddy. Before you bust out the pitchforks, he just asked them to post tweets. The cost to them is zero in money, and virtually zero in time.

Couple that with the fact that he was providing them with a free service and I only see a morally net positive contribution from him.

How is he a prick? What harm has he caused to anyone?

You’re the one showing a lack of humanity by judging him based on a single blog post.