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History lesson number one: the word "blockchain" isn't a pronoun. Seriously, if you don't even know that it tells me you joined the blockchain bandwagon some ti

History lesson number one: the word "blockchain" isn't a pronoun. Seriously, if you don't even know that it tells me you joined the blockchain bandwagon some time in 2015 or later which is when journalists who also didn't know shit about the technology started misusing the word (as if it were "email" or something.) If a person starts talking to me about "blockchain" and how "blockchain" is going to change the future I just instantly lose respect for them. Maybe this is petty of me but I do find it frustrating.

cocktailpeanuts 10y ago
This is like saying "Google" is not a verb. People always find ways to evolve usage of words in different ways, and that's the beauty of human language. However I do agree with you on how it's annoying these people (not just journalists but startup investors and entrepreneur wannabes) who just learned about Bitcoin (probably never used them but just read it on a blog post or a book) and keep saying Bitcoin sucks but blockchain will change everything.
Hydraulix989 10y ago
They don't understand the actual technical details -- what the word "block chain" means, which then allows them to grammatically abuse the word and even conjoin it (they're journalists). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain