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It's more than just science. I believe it changes the world more than anything in the last 30 years. I have been thinking of what the world would be without i

It's more than just science. I believe it changes the world more than anything in the last 30 years. I have been thinking of what the world would be without internet / computers / mobile phones, but having a great liquid store of value. If I had to choose only 1 of these technologies for my life, I would pick Bitcoin.

omarchowdhury 9y ago
You do realize you need internet / computers for Bitcoin to exist, right?
- tylersmith 9y ago
  The p2p network could be implemented over radio and without computers we'd just have a far lower hashrate and probably a different PoW algorithm. I don't see any reasonable way we would have discovered cryptocurrencies before the internet and computers though.
- jhall1468 9y ago
  Both of which have been around for more than 30 years. I agree that both were significantly greater inventions, but I wouldn't put Bitcoin far behind them.
- lemonycracket 9y ago
  Tell me more. So interesting. How does it work. What an insightful observation
- xiphias 9y ago
  Yes, I know how things work. I just imagined my life if none of the technologies were invented, except an amazing store of value + great currency at the same time.
corford 9y ago
Agree it has the potential to be as disruptive to world society as the web or smartphone. I mined a few satoshis in early 2014, stopped when hash difficulty got too hard and didn't pay Bitcoin much attention for the next few years. A couple of months ago I decided to jump back in to the whole crypto coin ecosystem and check out what's going on and, honestly, it's staggering how fast this space is evolving. I'm getting the same feelings I had in 1997/1998 with the web: there's something big going on and it feels exciting. Playing around with Ether Delta, watching smart contracts execute on etherscan, syncing my wallets up with blockchains, anonymously trading coins & tokens on exchanges, chatting to believers/trolls/curious peeps on forums. The whole vibe reminds me of geocities / audiogalaxy / slashdot in the late nineties. I think the ideas (technical & political) Satoshi Nakamoto crystallised in to Bitcoin represent the beginning of something fundamentally transformative and can't wait to see where it ends up.
- googletazer 9y ago
  >The whole vibe reminds me of geocities / audiogalaxy / slashdot in the late nineties. I get the same feeling, its as if we just discovered what we can do with Macromedia Flash after only having html and rudimentary JS + VBScript :)

omarchowdhury 9y ago

You do realize you need internet / computers for Bitcoin to exist, right?

tylersmith 9y ago
The p2p network could be implemented over radio and without computers we'd just have a far lower hashrate and probably a different PoW algorithm. I don't see any reasonable way we would have discovered cryptocurrencies before the internet and computers though.
jhall1468 9y ago
Both of which have been around for more than 30 years. I agree that both were significantly greater inventions, but I wouldn't put Bitcoin far behind them.
lemonycracket 9y ago
Tell me more. So interesting. How does it work. What an insightful observation
xiphias 9y ago
Yes, I know how things work. I just imagined my life if none of the technologies were invented, except an amazing store of value + great currency at the same time.

corford 9y ago

Agree it has the potential to be as disruptive to world society as the web or smartphone. I mined a few satoshis in early 2014, stopped when hash difficulty got too hard and didn't pay Bitcoin much attention for the next few years. A couple of months ago I decided to jump back in to the whole crypto coin ecosystem and check out what's going on and, honestly, it's staggering how fast this space is evolving. I'm getting the same feelings I had in 1997/1998 with the web: there's something big going on and it feels exciting. Playing around with Ether Delta, watching smart contracts execute on etherscan, syncing my wallets up with blockchains, anonymously trading coins & tokens on exchanges, chatting to believers/trolls/curious peeps on forums. The whole vibe reminds me of geocities / audiogalaxy / slashdot in the late nineties. I think the ideas (technical & political) Satoshi Nakamoto crystallised in to Bitcoin represent the beginning of something fundamentally transformative and can't wait to see where it ends up.

googletazer 9y ago
>The whole vibe reminds me of geocities / audiogalaxy / slashdot in the late nineties. I get the same feeling, its as if we just discovered what we can do with Macromedia Flash after only having html and rudimentary JS + VBScript :)