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All 'yall need to be ashamed of yourselves if you don't own even a US penny's worth of Bitcoin. I'm not even kidding. If you've never witnessed a bitcoin transaction or held a bitcoin on an electronic device this far into the game, just hang your heads in shame.

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This attitude is counterproductive as it paints our culture in a bad light. We should be on our way without pushing our ideals on others.

Bitcoin can feel like a cult sometimes, something I am ashamed of.

Also telling everyone to buy just a little reeks of pump and dump.

Spend some time on /r/bitcoin. There's some good discussion, but also some talk on there that would cause you to run away for fear of association. Sometimes I'll go there and want to go somewhere with more intellectualism and open-mindedness, like say a Tea Party forum.

Elitism is counterproductive. We need people to like Bitcoin.

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