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General Discussion / Re: Exactly one year ago...
« on: August 25, 2014, 12:17:09 am »
You guys have got me beat by quite a bit. I didn't look into bitshares until mid February when I saw the spike on coinmarketcap as I was looking for something good to mine. I didn't get into crypto to make money. I got into it because it was a fun nerdy way to play with code and hardware, and I like the idea of competing with central banks. Bitshares X didn't appeal to me when I first looked into it because I am not a trader (have still to this day never traded cash to crypto directly) and because I didn't understand its potential to do more than allow day traders to have fun. Bitshares DNS and keyhotee intrigued me though. This was a product I would actually use, and the first such product I had seen since bitcoin itself. When I began to dig into the forums I found https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=2853.msg35523#msg35523 and that sold me. When Dan talks about politics or economics it usually feels as if he has reached into my brain, taken my thoughts, organized them more efficiently than I do, and spoken them more clearly than I could. I love the potential of DACs freeing us from the clutches of our overlords by making them irrelevant, or more appropriately showing the hoodwinked masses that they are irrelevant. I am not above money, I am actually quite fond of it, but the real reason I am still here. The reason I plan on sticking around is the potential I see in these technologies to improve the lives of all of us, by helping to get this monkey off of our backs.