> Paul Krugman is saying that it wont be successful because the banks and government will fight it He's wrong. It won't be successful because it's pretty much

> Paul Krugman is saying that it wont be successful because the banks and government will fight it He's wrong. It won't be successful because it's pretty much unusable by regular people, difficult to secure (surprise, "be your own bank" implies "be your own security guard" — and 99% of people want to be neither of those things), extremely wasteful, slow and full of scams. Most people's first encounter with buttcoins is literally RANSOMWARE. Do you really think mass adoption is coming?