[craigc]

Well clearly you just glazed over what I said which was also what I expected.

I personally find the idea of having complete control over your own money, being able to program it, and being able to send it to anyone in the world fairly quickly and cheaply without any intermediary revolutionary. It doesn’t hurt that it is impossible to counterfeit, and your money can be stored completely in your brain.

If you don’t find those ideas revolutionary that is fine, but I think 10 or 20 years from now you may be surprised.

Outside of any of the technical feats, there is also the fact that Bitcoin is the best form of money in terms of the properties of money. Limited/fixed supply, divisible to 8 decimal places, can’t be counterfeited, easy to transact with, etc. I don’t see how anything else can even compare.

I am also curious why you think burning crap-tons of electricity to run the current financial system where you have to trust everyone is any better?

[mindfulplay]

This is the same reasoning that Bitcoin folks regurgitate with a lot of rhyme but no reason. It's like people have memorized this cult reasoning over and over again and think they have some intelligent reasoning on how this whole crapcoin fiesta makes any sense.

The irony of this whole argument is that people are holding BTC in the hopes that the price against USD will get higher over time.

If that doesn't sound stupid, I don't know what does....