Having difficulty with a company who fails to provide a service that's easily obtained elsewhere does not equate to it being difficult to convert Bitcoin to dollars. It's trivial to convert Bitcoin to dollars; Gox is not Bitcoin, Gox's issues do not apply to Bitcoin.
I'm not insisting that they are one and the same. But insisting that people get their categories exactly right in a casual conversation is tiresome (I mean in the comment I replied to initially).
It's even bad advocacy. You might better say "There are ways to do it that work fine, but there are obviously problems with some providers, especially that one awful one" before you start complaining that people are making things up because they didn't split the right hairs to communicate precisely with you.
Honestly man, this isn't splitting hairs, this is equivalent to someone saying that Bitcoin filed for bankruptcy. Confusing a private business with a payment protocol is not an error of category, it's an error of understanding what you're even referring to and demands correction even in a casual conversation. It's perfectly appropriate to point out that Gox is not Bitcoin.
You demanded a citation for "Given the difficulties people have in converting Bitcoins to dollars". I guess it's up in the air whether there is a 'some' or 'all' implied before the people.
I apologize for any damage to your face, but I continue to believe that the intent of the OP was to refer to specific experiences with vendors, not to characterize the protocol.
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Having difficulty with a company who fails to provide a service that's easily obtained elsewhere does not equate to it being difficult to convert Bitcoin to dollars. It's trivial to convert Bitcoin to dollars; Gox is not Bitcoin, Gox's issues do not apply to Bitcoin.
I'm not insisting that they are one and the same. But insisting that people get their categories exactly right in a casual conversation is tiresome (I mean in the comment I replied to initially).
It's even bad advocacy. You might better say "There are ways to do it that work fine, but there are obviously problems with some providers, especially that one awful one" before you start complaining that people are making things up because they didn't split the right hairs to communicate precisely with you.
Honestly man, this isn't splitting hairs, this is equivalent to someone saying that Bitcoin filed for bankruptcy. Confusing a private business with a payment protocol is not an error of category, it's an error of understanding what you're even referring to and demands correction even in a casual conversation. It's perfectly appropriate to point out that Gox is not Bitcoin.
You demanded a citation for "Given the difficulties people have in converting Bitcoins to dollars". I guess it's up in the air whether there is a 'some' or 'all' implied before the people.
/facepalm
I apologize for any damage to your face, but I continue to believe that the intent of the OP was to refer to specific experiences with vendors, not to characterize the protocol.