Interesting... It's quite the coincidence that many of his predictions have been accurate so far...
Thank you for digging through your history and bookmarks to find the original reddit post. After reading his post and then coming back and rereading yours, I realized that you didn't take much of an opinionated stance on this "time traveler's" warnings. You presented all the information with both sides of the argument in mind. Which kudos to you for doing so but I'm interested to hear whether or not you believed in his accusations...
Also, thank you for linking @prufarchy's post. It was brilliantly written. One part of it really stood out to me, he wrote:
What the Bitcoin brochure doesn't tell you is that, by buying and hodling bitcoin, you're entering into a new phase of your life where economics, finance, marketing, distribution merge with technology and become topics you regularly peruse.
If Bitcoin is changing the world, it's changing us right alongside it... and for the better, for once.
And I could not agree more.
I hope this doesn't sound trite, but even Steemit has done that for me within the past several days. Participating in a platform that's based upon the blockchain and crypto has exposed me to new ways of thinking. While I appreciate the original post, I also appreciate your thoughtful contribution.
http://operation-dragonslayer.com
My personal opinion when it comes to Luka's predictions regarding BTC price rise, it sounded possible to me as back then same now. It maybe wouldn't happen precisely as he/she predicted it, but sooner or later it would hit those numbers (of course, with some ups and down amplitudes in between).
When it comes to how it could affect a human society in whole and what kind of changes may provoke, I'm afraid it could easily be misused, especially if we take into consideration human greed and increased lack of empathy for another human being. In other words, I think it would a lot depend on us and in which direction we would take it.
I like very much the comparison with the fire for all such things. Meaning if we treat it (the fire) right it would serve us exactly as we want but if we are not cautious enough and if we neglect its power we can easily end up burned.
GREED was a big part it is what is making DAOs and Dapps possible,,, with the "killer App" know as Bitcoin. But it needed to happen that way because the world culture is one of competition and self serving behaviors. If it had started out as anything less than a Pavlovian collar and chain mechanism it wouldn't be getting the attention it is today. But Bitcoin and "money" is the LEAST IMPORTANT POSSIBILITY for DAOs and Dapps,,, these don't create "Anarchy", they create distributed "agreements" that people can join or ignore,,, the adaged "GOVERNED BY CONSENT". This will not lead to KAOS it will lead to autonomous freedom and the ability to self actualize instead of being stuck on the lower levels of the Maslow's hierarchy.
What is going to catch most people off guard is that this new culture will REQUIRE "Personal Responsibility" and we know most people love daddy and the protective father figure that looks over and guards them from themselves. This is a good thing though,,, this is part of the process of SPIRITUALLY "growing up".
Here is the article he's talking about :https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@adastra96/is-this-the-real-life-is-this-just-fantasy