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This sounds a hell lot like changing the goal posts.
by noobermin 9y ago
This sounds a hell lot like changing the goal posts.
- rescripting 9y agoDoes that matter? If you're looking to develop a drug to treat hypertension but end up with Viagra by accident instead, do you throw it away because that wasn't the original goal?
- TimJYoung 9y agoIt certainly matters if you've still got a lot of people running around telling anyone that will listen that the drug is a sure-fire cure for hypertension.
- raugustinus 9y agoThere's a lot of people in the world running around telling people all kinds of things.
- rabidrat 9y agoIf the production of Viagra at scale winds up causing global health problems, then yes, you throw it away.
- rescripting 9y agoThis may be straining the metaphor a bit, but I think you underestimate how much individuals want a magic sex pill.
- he0001 9y agoTell that to the FDA...
- erikpukinskis 9y agoNo, plenty of us have been saying this for a long time. Here is a HN post from 5 years ago where I say: “even if it's only ever used for politically sensitive transactions, and it never takes off as a consumer payment service, it will be a very big economy” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5526684#5526972 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5526684#5526972 The goalposts for Bitcoin have always just been “can it sustain its market cap?”
- fragsworth 9y agoAlso it's not like everyone you see on the Internet is the same person. Anyone who was hoping for it to replace credit cards didn't understand the system. Lots of other folks have known the limitations of Bitcoin for years and what we're seeing today was totally predictable.
- moduspol 9y agoOh it absolutely is. I'll acknowledge that. If Bitcoin is amazing at 7/12 of the things it set out to do, and sticking to those seven will pave the way for the other five to be done by other cryptocurrencies, that's fair to me.
- pentae 9y agoTo be fair, becoming a quarter trillion dollar store of 'digital gold' is a hell of a pivot.