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One only needs a single instance where Bitcoin worked when other payment processors did not. Wikileaks fulfills that example. Sci-hub is one more example than I
by jancsika 8y ago
One only needs a single instance where Bitcoin worked when other payment processors did not. Wikileaks fulfills that example. Sci-hub is one more example than I need.
Piling on a thousand other obvious cases where cryptocurrencies are useless doesn't change those edge cases.
Just to get another example where this logic plays out: I'd bet the vast majority of cases where people are using GPG, the feature of "irrefutability" isn't needed. There are probably also cases where the user doesn't realize that is a feature, as well as cases where it's dangerous to have that feature. But I'm not prepared to call that feature useless, and if I claimed that it was it would only take a single edge-case from a contrarian to prove me wrong.