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I'm curious about the pro-government regulation people... You trust these regulators so much, yet they are the ones who let everyone down with the financial crisis and housing crash. Those are totally regulated banking industries, yet it still happened. And guess what, US equities dropped more in price than Bitcoin did when this happened...
Also, just because something isn't regulated by the government doesn't mean it can't have checks and balances, and safety nets in place. There's nothing about bitcoin not being regulated that says a company can't offer insurance, or groups of companies can't join and create their own regulations people must follow, etc. Like I keep saying, it's still brand new - we are still at day 1.
It's just weird that people want so bad for the government to control everything they do. Then when they get screwed over by policy, they bitch and moan.. but keep going along with status quo.
Maybe the internet is the thing that is needed to empower people, and until now there wasn't a way to set up a system like this. If you look at how different things were before the internet, this is absolutely clear to me.
WHich brings up, maybe this is an age thing. Mindbomber your profile says you are 22... well when I was 22, the dot com bubble just burst. But more imporatantly was the time before that. Going to high school when there was no internet, yet finishing high school when there was. It really is incredible how different things were back then, but during this time you were still being potty trained....
Looking at all the 'haters' (well, by this I mean the people who "thank" every anti-bitcoin post, and the ones making jokes) this trend seems to be true. Almost all of these people are between 18-22 with one or two who are in their late 20's. That is quite interesting.
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