Lol, upvote the strawman anti-charles opinion. You guys are funny.
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Oh he will be relevant when Ethereum waits for all the crypto 2.0 out there to fund the technical leg work while they purchase political connections (that give them King-Making power) with their 25 Million USD from their "Non-IPO" through Switzerland. It is just too rich man....
NSA is what I think, but who knows...he sure isn't saying.
Let's stop talking about overreactive Amygdala's (the fear center of the brain) and lets get rid of the NSA statement for the moment. First this is not about me (
I am a self-professed Libertarian (if we must abide by labels) and nothing close to what is called, today, a "conservative" or "democrat" in case it is that important).
Let's talk about what Ethereum is doing and why good ol' Charles is here. Hint...it is not to help us, but to get us to run experiments for him so "his" team doesn't have to later take the risk with their own "non-IPO" money.
Bitcoin is what they want to displace as number 1, so watching how something like this works with bitshares as a test case--with Litecoin--is the point we need to get back to.
I am actually really into the idea of sharedropping superior products on cult members who own coins that are going, literally, nowhere with regard to actual value (think Dogeparty). Why? Because it shows users very quickly what they failed to see before they had a stake in a better project. Ethereum is not even a product...but a dream with lots of money to buy the innovative devs in the space. It is a psychological trick...make the devs of ethereum look like they are the most brilliant and coolest nerds on the block so everyone wants to fight each other to be part of the clique.
I am for one don't like feeling like I have to bring up difficult questions about Charles. But I don't trust him. Period. I hope he proves me wrong and builds a Utopia where everyone is a sovereign with privacy and an overabundance of all necessities in life...but Charles is a Salesman who
never directly answers the most important questions (note he didn't answer any of the questions I asked and instead chose to attempt to deface my argument that he could be an agent working to coopt the crypto-movement).
I do not look for boogeymen everywhere, but it is
absolutely insane that most of the cryptocommunity fails to recognize that the very institutions Crypto was meant to free us from will not just simply say "oh well...I guess we lose". No, this to them is a war against the lemmings...the plebs for whom bread and circuses is enough to pacify. The Amygdala is a part of the brain that is meant to help us quickly react to POTENTIAL danger before we have a chance to reason those dangers away. Please tell me what Charles has given any of you that gives you a real argument for
reasoning this away.
This is not to sew seeds of hatred toward all the no-doubt wonderful and idealistic people playing with the idea (
that is all there currently is--that and a lot of money) of Ethereum. And I don't hate Charles! I actually
want him to prove me wrong so I can move on and not feel concerned over his motives! Let us remember, Charles professes to want Ether to be the "oil to bitcoin's gold" or, in other words, the crypto version of the Petro Dollar--The World's Reserve Currency for the past 100+ years. They want to create a completely new programming language (how many backdoors do you suppose it will have?) which means that all forks/clones could still have security flaws inherent in them and, as such, forking or cloning would do nothing to fix the dangers it represents.
It is being said because I personally feel it is important to put my opinion on the subject out there as a constant reminder to everyone it is precisely our willful ignorance to the very real dangers of this world that largely account for why bad things happen to good people. Why? Because good people tend to project their own intentions onto others, believing that if they are open, loving and helpful people that anyone who smiles at them is as benevolent as they are. Some of those people who smile back (approximately 1%) are psychopaths (
http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2013/04/24/psychopaths-are-not-neurally-equipped-have-concern-others).
Charles. If you are a legit guy who is really working hard to make the world a better place for my baby, I hope you will take my sincere apologies for being so hard on you. Eagleeye is very correct on a few things he says about this being "war" of sorts. Although we can be altruistic and want to fix all the problems of the world together, we shouldn't forget that many people out there do consider this war. This is always true in business and economics
Very worthwhile book (and apparently a free audio book version is available!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L03BHTlRfXg