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Oh 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

Oh 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.

matt4077 9y ago
Yeah, well.... It would seem "transactions" should be among the things that a currency does well.
- fooker 9y ago
  Not necessarily. Bags of grain or N cows did not do transactions well. Yet they were successful as currencies for millennia.
  - statguy 9y ago
    times have changed since...
    - 20after4 9y ago
      I'm pretty sure bags of grain are still a significant unit of value exchange[1]. [1] yep: http://www.nasdaq.com/markets/wheat.aspx http://www.nasdaq.com/markets/wheat.aspx
    - fooker 9y ago
      They have, and we have bitcoins instead of bags of grain.