you do senseless stuff to get a bit of money
so do you. It's called having a paying job
and you do (or recommend to do) stupid stuff with it (like investing it for the sake of getting more money, likely without producing value)
i hope you never give investment tips to anybody. Getting more money is the essence of investing. As you certainly could read, i recommended people to use what they have to try Bitcoin out (it's essentially free!) so that they can make a small sallary from it.
and on top of all that, you even believe you are taking part in a thing that is much better then the old system.. doing the same old crap plus some more.
i really do believe it is better. And it certainly is not the same crap. Essentially this is the polar opposite in terms of monetary theory.
the world will not get better, just cause you use different money.
certainly not. It gets better from everything good the properties of this new money allows.
it could get better, if you do business that is good for the world, and with the help of bitcoin, can do more of that business then with the old system.
Just one reason why Bitcoin is so popular. Those who understand it realize we can free hundreds of trillions $ of capital per year into productive work just by getting off fractional reserve banking.
mining bitcoins is not such a business. buying with bitcoin is.. a tiny bit part of it.
Mining Bitcoins is what makes this new paradigm possible. I already thought i explained this in a previous post. I can do it again if you really cannot see how Bitcoin mining is comparable to being a systems administrator at some bank.
you have to stop seeing money and other material goods, like silver, as something to want, have and keep, if possible, and start seeing it as a tool to ease exchange and help others and yourself have a better live.
no i don't. I have to live in the real world. A fairy tale utopia is of course really nice, but come on.
in short, money is a thing that has to flow to be of value.
money is stored energy potential. Likewise can be said that energy must flow for it to do work, but why the hell do we use batteries then?
the most valuable thing with bitcoin is, that it shows a possibility, and creates a lot of discussions, which might turn up with better alternative systems.
this i can agree with because you started the sentence correctly. However the best system to this date is Bitcoin.
don't make the mistake to think it is perfect, just cause it is better then the old system in some aspects. there have to be yet other systems, trying to address the problems of bitcoin.
exactly what i have been saying all along.
how it looks like to me though, it is more likely that we will see the abandoning of money alltogether (Start Trek style), then seeing a really good money system being implemented. though... i don;t think this new world would be available to everyone.
Possible? Perhaps. Let's just stick with the real alternatives here. Not yet startrek when 90% of the population has not even heard about Bitcoin, and 99% does not understand how it works.