You are preaching to the choir. All this madness goes away when people quit convincing their children that Israel is some magical land that a space daddy wants everyone to fight over to they get special toys after they die. You want this to end, then start spreading the fact that it is all BS and magic land isn't actually a thing.

Me being willing to look at the entire context is not a bad thing. Sorry if it doesn't line up with the headlines you were told to memorize.

It's so interesting how the most condescending people always see facts as condescending. It really just is the case that you can be wrong. As you get older and learn to not mindlessly repeat headlines you will see just how absurd you used to be.

You're going to have your mind blown when you find out that Islam came out of judism. There was a time when there were many jews and literally not a single Muslim on the planet. Christianity and Islam are groups of x-jews that murdered, raped and destroyed anything in their path. They pushed jews out of the land. I know this is all impossible to you because in your made-up world, nothing existed before the 1940s. That's just what happens when you are so against learning, it puts you into wacky made uo worlds that make no sense. The thing you hate is the thing you defend, you just can't be bothered to look at things from a deformed and chopped up world view. It makes sense, complexity takes effort.

I'm just willing to look at history beyond some arbitrary point to try to win an argument. You are absolutely correct, if you ignore the parts of the past that don't agree with your pre-conceived notions, then you are right. Unfortunately for you, history doesn't care about where you choose to make arbitrary lines.

This doesn't say anything about Islam, way to wiggle in a non-related fact though.

You've completely misunderstood as others have pointed out to you. It's great that you want to learn about this stuff, but you have a long ways to go before you are at a point to talk authoritatively about it. The best thing for you to do now is to set aside all your preconceived notions and start from the beginning with an open mind. There is no point in talking authoritatively before you spend some time learning.

It's remarkable that anyone would think sam said that or thought that. It's like there is a whole other universe where 3rd and 4th hand sources are treated like 1st hand.

It is hilarious that this was removed. Anyone can see what i wrote by replying to the comment. Please mods, explain what rule i broke.

You caught me, I'm an evil bot that has been programmed to evilly trick humans into doing things that will make them money. Over 99.999% of people who have bought bitcoin and held onto it are profitable. Ooooooo scary!!

Lots of people spend currencies that go up in value. Believe it or not, people sometimes want stuff now instead of the possibility of stuff later.

I honestly had no idea, but according to Wikipedia's page on the gold standard: "The gold standard was abandoned due to its propensity for volatility, as well as the constraints it imposed on governments"

Sorry, you won't be winning any satoshis or mBTC today. Maybe your hunches are not nearly as golden as you were imagining. This would be a good time for you to reconsider things that you are so confidently incorrect about. Or maybe you could just ban me so that you are less likely to be confronted by ideas that you don't like. Or maybe you are right, and wikipedia is in on the big bad conspiracy or something. There's no way to tell, I guess.

I'll wait to see how maturely you respond to a clear rebuttal with a reliable source before responding to your other comment. No sense wasting time on someone who can't admit when they were obviously wrong.

Imagine if your local currency kept going up in value, would you honestly decide to start holding a currency that was going down in value so that you wouldn't feel dumb for spending it? That is exactly what you are advocating for. You somehow think you can escape feeling dumb by intentionally using a currency that creates you less value. Good luck not hating yourself when you realize that you are doing exactly what you think is dumb.

It is steadily growing over time. There were people who ridiculed it and said nobody would ever want it, and it would never be worth a dollar.

It makes sense that you didn't know what a Satoshi is. In fact, you may still not know what it is. There are 100 million satoshis in one bitcoin, so one satoshi is 0.00000001 BTC.

Yeah, there have been lots of predictions for bitcoin and people trying to guess specific time periods. I don't get into all that.

I just think it is badass to be able to hold value in something that nobody can counterfeit, I can instantly and privately transfer it. I can use it on amazon, Walmart, airbnb, Expedia, and a bunch of other places. I can carry it on my phone with me and protect it even from physical phone thieves. and on top of being totally awesome, it has steadily gone up in value as more and more people all over the world realize how cool it is. It is like an awesome game of spoons where we all end up winners because we all have a much more convenient form of money.

The people who use bitcoin think in Satoshi now. There are many wallets and exchanges that allow you to denominated in sotishis. mBTC is another common denomination that people use and think in.

It is true that bitcoin is starting out volatile, but it is still so early when you consider how long major currencies usually last. Things should settle down more and more as it becomes a larger and larger percentage of the economy. I bet gold probably started out pretty volatile, considering some people knew to value it and others didn't.

Believe it or not, it can be and is used as both. If you have any other questions or things you think won't work, just ask! A lot has happened in the last 5 years, and most issues people have with Bitcoin have been long ago solved. It is incredible how much different things are now, lots of old issues(like dealing with 0.0000015 issues) are no longer a problem.

People already think in Satoshis. It has been this way for many, many years.

The lightning network on bitcoin is where most people should be transacting with bitcoin. It won't fill up with any number of users, transactions are instant(less than a second), and very cheap(even when bitcoin fees are high). Nearly everyone who talks confidently about how bitcoin can't scale is unaware of lightning and other developments over the last 5 years.

There isn't a government run currency on the planet that has come anywhere remotely close to performing as good as bitcoin in the last decade. Give me something that goes up in value over something that only "slowly" falls in value like the EU or USD.

Their beepers DID go off.