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How's that? Bitcoin's hard forks just tend to fizzle out into nothing. Ethereum's chain has been switched out with via hard fork several times already and peopl

• Sargos 9y ago
  When you refer to people in your comment it mostly likely means the Bitcoin enthusiasts and not a normal person looking at it from the perspective that it's a currency. It's volatile and has seemingly no leadership with realistic goals. People aren't going to take it seriously until it matures in multiple ways. But like I said it's still experimental so maybe the kinks will get worked out in a few years and it will become viable, but it has a long way to go and it's not moving very fast.
  • tboyd47 9y ago
    > volatile and has seemingly no leadership with realistic goals I'd argue that the perceived utility of Bitcoin as a currency depends a lot on the alternatives available to you. There's no way to measure Bitcoin adoption by country but Google trends gives an interesting picture: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=Bitcoin https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=Bitcoin
• zwily 9y ago
  ... with the exception of Bitcoin Cash. It seems to be doing okay.
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  • tboyd47 9y ago
    I prefer to measure success in network size rather than price, and Bitcoin ABC (the only available node for BCH) seems to be comparable to Bitcoin Classic, which had 2,000 full nodes running at its height, yet still seems to have fizzled out.