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>Our parents/grandparents invented the internet but didn't find ways to turn it into what it is today. Repeating this over and over again doesn't make it true.
by hannasanarion 8y ago
>Our parents/grandparents invented the internet but didn't find ways to turn it into what it is today.
Repeating this over and over again doesn't make it true. Google, Amazon, and Ebay we're established in the first year of the eternal September, and immediately started changing people's lives. We're 10 years after Bitcoin, and still with nothing to show for it but money laundering and pump and dump schemes.
- ThomPete 8y agoIt doesn't make it false either. The blockchain is a protocol, not a company. The TCP/IP protocol was decades old before it became useful to build companies on top of exactly because it required A LOT of networked connectivity, people to make various investments and critical mass from users. Give it time.
- hannasanarion 8y agoIn the early days of TCPIP, you needed a university membership to get access, and network-capable computers were even more rare. So you're saying that there aren't enough networked computers for blockchain to be viable? We're currently sitting at around 8 networked devices for every human being, how many more do we need? 15? 20? What is holding blockchain back, since it is definitely not university membership?
- ThomPete 8y agoNo. I am saying that there aren't enough cryptocurrencies and thus the network is not pervasive enough to become infrastructure plus it's still mostly academic and you need to understand it conceptually to start making sense of it. Most people don't even most of those who are involved in it.
- kthejoker2 8y agoDo you think eternal September was when the Internet began?
- hannasanarion 8y agoThe eternal September is when the internet became public and available to anyone. Do you need a university membership to use blockchain?