> I don't know what is gained from harping on all the early failures. Avoiding them in the future, perhaps? I wouldn't mock a mature technology for historical

> I don't know what is gained from harping on all the early failures. Avoiding them in the future, perhaps? I wouldn't mock a mature technology for historical teething issues, that's pointless. But cryptocurrencies keep replaying the same errors and conflicts without seeming to learn a thing. I like the idea of cryptocurrency, but it's not going to succeed unless we learn from the (myriad, severe) mistakes of the past.