though some are borderline insane, and some have gone well beyond that...
Who are those people Mr. '...', or are you too coward to speak that, to debate what exactly is some really insane things in this world?
i've gone beyond insane; punk, rat, zeynep, and you, appear somewhat borderline. personal opinions.
I think most of the people on this list are currently against bitcoin.
Not private, not fungible, not a p2p electronic cash system. It doesn't meet some of cypherpunk qualifications, which may be why Satoshi worked it on Metzger's list full of statists. Even His Highness Wright says Bitcoin is friends with the State.
meh
it wastefully turns a whole lot of energy and other resources into nothing useful
Same with this argument. Debunked, thoroughly, repeatedly, by many.
improvements not integrated into core after many years. no biggie. of course, doing so would make it a real p2p electronic cash system again, as most altcoins have done.
no mechanism to refund fraud or error
Sounds like a personal problem, so get off non-repudiables and go use any of the 1000's of GovCorp babysitter coins, including the apparently still beloved Fiat.
see: security by obscurity. nobody cares about nor wants refundability, and everybody here knows it already.
no longer seen as a thing to be admired?
Bitcoin's protocol is baked, any admiration is a historical remembrance now, in time new protocols have more potential to usurp the front position.
bitcoin's protocol is actually continually improving in a very-influenced decision making process that is likely kept open to any interested. seems more productive to strengthen something better to most.
agenda a better purpose.
Hardly better purpose than develop a p2p cash that works and is not subject to the State. BTC is not those, yet there are probably some potential candidates out there.
not technically a cypherpunk view unless you are a blockchain dev; p2p cash works already.
Though I do wish I had bought some bitcoins early on ...
If Bitcoin-BTC survives in top-5 it will likely hit at least 4x somewhere before it's 25th birthday. It's main challenger is it's own deprecation. Buy it, or not.
what grarpamp is saying here is that it is 'fucking' not too late. everybody reads news about cryptocurrency exploision being in the past, early investors being lucky: cryptocurrency is _still ongoing_. don't trust news that disses peer to peer community solutions. one thing to do is to buy or "mine" from all the new altcoins that have merit. some of them skyrocket, for example after being introduced to a new exchange, which is likely preceded by discussion. dump after a spike, repeat. check past charts to see what order of magnitude and frequency of profit to expect.