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Re:Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Author of Black Swan, on Bitcoin by ShabbosGoy on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @01:31PM (#16215995)
> And while these ideologues are busy demonizing the central banks a handful of individuals manipulate bitcoin to levels a central bank could never even attempt...

What baffles me is the obsession over price. Nobody obsesses over USD/JPY, unless you’re a forex trader.

Rather than focusing on price, the focus should be on building new ideas with blockchain technology. Dapps are easier than ever to deploy with Truffle/web3.js[0] for example. You can come up with cool alternative governance models like Dash[1] has.

I’ve been following Bitcoin since 2010. It’s never been about price for me. It’s been about what cool things you can build with the technology.

[0] http://truffleframework.com

[1] https://dashvotetracker.com

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Re:Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Author of Black Swan, on Bitcoin by rmah on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @02:33PM (#16216752)
How is this baffling? 99% of people who buy bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies don't care about freedom, disrupting the financial system or any of that other ideological issues. They simply want to make money (USD, EUR, JPY, what have you).
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