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There's no product yet, they're selling the tokens that will be used in future products. When we finally find use cases that make cryptoassets relevant to regu
by panarky 9y ago
There's no product yet, they're selling the tokens that will be used in future products.
When we finally find use cases that make cryptoassets relevant to regular people for routine activities, then the skeptics will understand that there's more going on here than just tulips and Ponzis.
Telegram has real potential to do that, it just takes some imagination to see what it could be.
- rorykoehler 9y agoThey way you describe it makes it sound like you're giving free money to vapourware. Telegrams ideas around tokens could be useless and lead to the tokens being valueless. At a minimum we should expect a clear product roadmap from them.
- swsieber 9y agoSmall nit: Until we finally find use cases that make cryptocurrencies relevant to regular people there's nothing more going on here than Tulips and Ponzis.
- pofjer 9y agounless
- swsieber 9y agoI chose "until" specifically because finding a good use case does not justify any of the shenanigans that happened before that discovery. The word "when" doesn't carry that connotation, and "unless" doesn't either - though I'm guessing you chose it because it implies we may never find one?
- pofjer 9y agoWe may as well do, but unless that actually happens, it's going to continue being just wishful thinking.
- biztos 9y agoGiven that nobody has found those use cases yet, why do so many people assume they exist?
- prostoalex 9y agoWell, investing such cryptoassets into other cryptoassets as well as hodl’ing those cryptoassets are two robust everyday use cases.