[robertAngst]

There are 21,000,000 bitcoin ever ever ever.

If you can see that, you can begin to exclude yourself from fiat money which requires centralized control of currency.

I trust rare numbers more than I trust the United States government.

[roryisok]

> I trust rare numbers more than I trust the United States government

That's such a silly statement. Rare numbers do not control the value of bitcoin, the market does. Your rare number might be worth half what it was in December 2017, and twice what it was a year before that. Tomorrow it might be worth nothing. Or $1000. Or $1. The rareness of the number is about as relevant as the colour of the dollar

[drngdds]

I don't. Do you really want to rely on a currency whose value fluctuates as wildly as Bitcoin's? I like knowing that the $X deposited in my bank account a few days ago will have approximately the same value in a few months or years.

[throwawayqdhd]

This is pretty much the same attitude that will keep Bitcoin out of the mainstream.

Statements like that make Bitcoiners come across as digital survivalists, the internet equivalent of redneck militia.