"Bitcoin comes with an implicit political agenda attached"
Uh, no? Some of the people who like bitcoin have an agenda (yes, possibly including its creator). However, bitcoin itself is mostly just about fast, easy, verifiable money transference. It happens to also be sorta anonymous. You know, like cash. Of course, there's 185 times as much cash just in the United States as all the current bitcoins in the world, so it's really a drop in the bucket of anonymous transactions.
"BtC is inherently deflationary"
1.) So? 2.) Not infinitely... it's a commodity, like gold. Is gold deflationary? Sorta? But it's not $1 million an ounce. There's a point where people just won't pay more for it. Same is true for bitcoin. Also, unlike a fiat currency of a nation, there's no economy depending on bitcoin as their sole currency. It's not going to drag any country's economy into a standstill because it is increasing in price... just as gold's deflationary tendency isn't ruining the US economy.
"Mining uses a lot of electricity"
So do banks. Except there's specific economic pressure on miners to make their rigs as efficient as possible... and this only increases as bitcoins get more difficult to mine. Mining has gotten a few orders of magnitude as energy efficient today as it was in the beginning. Miners can't just charge fees and raise interest rates to make more money. The only reason it has been economically viable to mine is because bitcoin has skyrocketed.... and it's still right on the line of not being profitable for many people.
"Bitcoin mining software as malware"
What the... what? Lots of things are malware, why does that make bitcoin bad? Does malware "virus checkers" make antivirus software bad? This makes no sense.
"Stolen electricity will drive out honest mining"
Uh... it already takes specialized hardware, and the biggest miners are making whole rooms and buildings into miniing shops. You can't steal that much electricity. If some guy wants to put a mining rig in his office's server closet, that's not going to affect normal miners in any significant way.
"Bitcoin facilitates assassination and drugs and child pornography"
Seriously, we're back to this? Cash, 185x as much of it in the US. Is assassination really a pressing problem in this day and age? I get the child porn thing, but bitcoin isn't exactly going to make it explode in popularity.
"Bitcoin is pretty much designed for tax evasion"
Again... hello, cash. Yes, it's easier to sell stuff online for bitcoin. But there's still a million cash only businesses out there that seem to pay their taxes just fine.
You seem to assume people are naturally thieves, crooks, and druggies. I think most people are naturally honest and good. You seem to think we need some kind of father figure watching over us, steering us away from the bad things, whereas I think most people avoid bad things as a matter of course. Yes, some small portion of people will use bitcoin to do bad things. But that can be said of every technology.
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