"Bitcoin's ideology needs to be palatable to the large center, not just the Libertarians. Bitcoin itself is not incompatible with much at all except inflation of the money supply and monetary oppression of the individual."

I co-authored a new article:
https://medium.com/@hasufly/evangelizing-bitcoin-729e6fc4cd2f

Back in early 2013 I mined on Slush Pool with a Radeon 5850 card. After about a month I mined a block (kicked myself for not solo mining - would have netted me 25BTC)

Today it would take on average 2.3 million years for that same card to mine a block.

We have come a long way in five years.