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I think anything that wants to be called a currency should be useful for buying and selling goods and useful for storing value. Cash right now can do this. Bitc
by adiusmus 8y ago
I think anything that wants to be called a currency should be useful for buying and selling goods and useful for storing value. Cash right now can do this. Bitcoin right now can’t, and lightning on top can’t do it as per your comment about it having a vulnerability if you don’t log in.
I’m sure I’ll get downvoted for that statement as well.
This is simple bullying by a mob of people who don’t understand what a currency is actually useful for. And are happy to bully and attack someone for even mentioning an issue.
- beaner 8y agoNobody's bullying you, you just say inaccurate things or bring up things that were not your original argument. Even this response disregards my point. Everyone agrees with you that being able to handle payments is important for Bitcoin to become a more widely-adopted currency. That's why they're working on improving it so that it can be that way.
- adiusmus 8y agoWrong. I can’t see any evidence of others agreeing with me. People definitely disagreed with my statement “And having money stolen from my wallet because I haven’t logged in recently is NOT useful for a currency.” Disagreeing with that doesn’t bode well for the future of commerce. The only possibly incorrect statement was “Another fork of bitcoin”. The person who told me I was wrong introduced a different project. I was accused of "moving the goal posts’’ when I clarified what I was referring to and got a snarky reply when I did so. So my statement about lightning being a “Another fork of bitcoin” is actually factually correct. References: Lightning as bitcoin fork http://lightningbitcoin.io/ http://lightningbitcoin.io/ Lightning as protocol https://lightning.network/ https://lightning.network/