Purpose is a subjective concept and is therefore doomed to not last long
but the bag of tricks that made bitcoin possible will be always available,
patiently waiting for someone to give them a new purpose.

2016-05-08 18:08 GMT+02:00 Whatevs <genjix@???>:

> I'm just ensuring that Gavin's destruction is utter and final. It's
> strictly business.
>
> We want to see this symbol to die a violent death. And Gavin was the
> peak of all that.
>
> Bitcoin is now gripped by a pessimism and anxiety. The corporations and
> power failed them. With their triumphalism, Bitcoin reached its
> end-point and the illusion manifest as... emptiness.
>
> Lost and hopeless, lacking vision and ideology, everything naturally
> imploded.
>
> What happens now in this power vacuum?
>
> What is the next stage?
>
> Will Bitcoin have its terroristic reawakening, a politics of jihad? See
> the BBC's rhetorical front page article "Is Bitcoin Still Relevant?".
>
> Bitcoin is now a tech lacking destiny & purpose.
>
> jamileh s.t.:
> > I for one am really happy to see that all the shitty bitcoin people
> finally
> > got what they deserved (Gavin, Mike etc.).
> > But this is not news it's just btc drama. It's funny drama because Gavin
> is
> > such a retard but that is not news.
> >
> > On 8 May 2016 at 12:51, vdo <vdo@???> wrote:
> >
> >> Back in time... anyone went to WhatTheHack 2005?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> https://m.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4ebi3a/first_known_satoshi_nakamoto_sighting
> >> /
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> El 8 de mayo de 2016 13:02:35 CEST, Whatevs <genjix@???>
> escribió:
> >>
> >>> Back in 2011,
> >>>
> >>> https://web.archive.org/web/20110411071904/http://www.bitcoin.org/
> >>>
> >>> Guess who took me off the list?
> >>>
> >>> Think why.
> >>>
> >>> Whatevs:
> >>>
> >>>> Gavin has a darker side that the wider community is oblivious to.
> >>>>
> >>>> In this case he might have been blatantly conspiring to legitimize
> his
> >>>> position, or he might have been desperate to believe anything that
> could
> >>>> let him reclaim his glory.
> >>>>
> >>>> People think something big has happened. Gavin has always been
> >>>> incompetent, with nothing inherently special to keep him in power. He
> >>>> tried to push me out of Bitcoin development by blocking me in the
> early
> >>>> days (which is why I went and first forked with you Freecoin, then
> >>>> created libbitcoin), and
> >>>> later making secret character assassinations
> >>>> about me behind closed doors.
> >>>>
> >>>> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=322328.msg3459482#msg3459482
> >>>>
> >>>> https://imgur.com/m3Wbxxa
> >>>>
> >>>> Unfortunately people are blind to fake smiles and false words. Have
> you
> >>>> ever seen someone who likes power through insecurity, lack of vision
> and
> >>>> wanting to play with the big guys? Then you have a young punk with
> >>>> vision who doesn't respect the rules and wants to poison the well
> with
> >>>> anarchist ideology. That's how Cody calls it - the banality of evil.
> >>>>
> >>>> This was during the time when Bitcoin Corporate was at its peak, and
> >>>> there was a prevailing slave sentiment throughout the community of
> >>>> kowtowing to power.
> >>>>
> >>>> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=333824.msg3665209#msg3665209
> >>>> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=412846.msg4497012#msg4497012
> >>>> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5979.msg4504984#msg4504984
> >>>> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=412846.msg4505356#msg4505356
> >>>>
> >>>> Finally there is hope for Bitcoin. I am very happy that Peter Todd is
> >>>> now in charge, and these guys have been exposed for what they are.
> >>>>
> >>>> Don't forget Charlie Shrem was their darling boy for the longest
> time,
> >>>> and their main negotiator with Duh System!! Yet when he was accused
> (not
> >>>> charged or anything), they quickly swept him under
> >>>> the rug and denounced
> >>>> him hard. It was me and Cody who showed him our solidarity.
> >>>>
> >>>> They are not ethical people. They have a kind of public morality not
> >>>> based on virtue but on purely consequence in their Machievallian
> >>>> worldview. It's the anti-thesis of our purely virtue ethical action
> >>>> against power regardless of if we win or not. Because as Cody says -
> we
> >>>> enjoy the fight.
> >>>>
> >>>> Jaromil:
> >>>>
> >>>>> On Sun, 08 May 2016, Mike Gogulski wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> It's all on reddit. There are dozens of important threads, and a
> lot to say.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> as much as I dislike reddit, went through it already.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I'm asking here to hear from unsystem, else I'd be asking on
> reddit, no? :^)
> >>>>>
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