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Many big things were ignored at first and many thought of them as just another fad: 1. internet 2. PC then Smart phone 3. digital camera 4. bitcoin ... the list

by readhn 7y ago

Many big things were ignored at first and many thought of them as just another fad: 1. internet 2. PC then Smart phone 3. digital camera 4. bitcoin ... the list is long. continuous battery innovation and expanding flying range / lift power will make drone delivery a regular every day occurrence, just like uber service or amazon next day delivery service have become. there are so many ideas and applications that are just waiting to be unleashed...!!! we live in truly amazing times!

dclusin 7y ago
Bitcoin still hasn't been disproven to be a fad :)
- tempsolution 7y ago
  And it never will be :D. There was never any need for crypto currency to begin with and pretty much all of them fail to deliver on their core promise of decentralization. If they do deliver on that promise, they are so slow that the idea of global deployment is ridiculous... The core idea of crypto currency (i.e. byzantine fault tolerance) is 2000 years old. The fact that this happens now already demonstrates that there never was any need for this and there won't be.
  - s1artibartfast 7y ago
    >There was never any need for crypto currency Of course there was and still is. The three main purposes as I see them are as follows: 1) International money transfer free of regulatory oversight. 2) Anonymous purchase and money laundering 3) Decentralized currency free of government manipulation - Bitcoin falls short of this. Cryptocurrency is a great solution for all of these needs. Of course I agree that most currencies add little or no value to their core product, especially the ICO crowd.
    - grepthisab 7y ago
      This is like that episode of the Simpsons when Apu is getting his citizenship and taking the quiz, they ask him the cause of the American Revolution and he starts going through a list with nuanced analysis. The testmaster stops him and tells him: "Just say slavery." There were some other very minor causes, but slavery was the biggest. Similarly, you can just say illegal purchases. The other things have been largely debunked. Interestingly, you didn't even mention the giant primary use case of buying illegal things.
      - blacksmith_tb 7y ago
        Er, wasn't the one-word cause of the American Revolution "taxation" ? (The one-word cause of the American Civil War would probably be "slavery", though).
        dragonwriter 7y ago
        > Er, wasn't the one-word cause of the American Revolution "taxation" ? No, “disenfranchisement”. Read the Declaration, it was about usurpations of the right of the people to govern themselves. “No...without representation” is the key part, not “taxation”. That's been inverted for propaganda purposes by modern anti-tax activists. But, in a any case, “slavery” would have to be the Civil War, the Texas Revolution, or—indirectly, by way of the previous item—the Mexican-American War.
      - s1artibartfast 7y ago
        I think black market purchases fall pretty clearly under #2 above.
cameronbrown 7y ago
Oh wow. Did you just compare Bitcoin to the internet itself? Cameras too?! Please, get out of the crypto bubble.

by readhn 7y ago

dclusin 7y ago

Bitcoin still hasn't been disproven to be a fad :)

tempsolution 7y ago
And it never will be :D. There was never any need for crypto currency to begin with and pretty much all of them fail to deliver on their core promise of decentralization. If they do deliver on that promise, they are so slow that the idea of global deployment is ridiculous... The core idea of crypto currency (i.e. byzantine fault tolerance) is 2000 years old. The fact that this happens now already demonstrates that there never was any need for this and there won't be.
- s1artibartfast 7y ago
  >There was never any need for crypto currency Of course there was and still is. The three main purposes as I see them are as follows: 1) International money transfer free of regulatory oversight. 2) Anonymous purchase and money laundering 3) Decentralized currency free of government manipulation - Bitcoin falls short of this. Cryptocurrency is a great solution for all of these needs. Of course I agree that most currencies add little or no value to their core product, especially the ICO crowd.
  - grepthisab 7y ago
    This is like that episode of the Simpsons when Apu is getting his citizenship and taking the quiz, they ask him the cause of the American Revolution and he starts going through a list with nuanced analysis. The testmaster stops him and tells him: "Just say slavery." There were some other very minor causes, but slavery was the biggest. Similarly, you can just say illegal purchases. The other things have been largely debunked. Interestingly, you didn't even mention the giant primary use case of buying illegal things.
    - blacksmith_tb 7y ago
      Er, wasn't the one-word cause of the American Revolution "taxation" ? (The one-word cause of the American Civil War would probably be "slavery", though).
      - dragonwriter 7y ago
        > Er, wasn't the one-word cause of the American Revolution "taxation" ? No, “disenfranchisement”. Read the Declaration, it was about usurpations of the right of the people to govern themselves. “No...without representation” is the key part, not “taxation”. That's been inverted for propaganda purposes by modern anti-tax activists. But, in a any case, “slavery” would have to be the Civil War, the Texas Revolution, or—indirectly, by way of the previous item—the Mexican-American War.
    - s1artibartfast 7y ago
      I think black market purchases fall pretty clearly under #2 above.

cameronbrown 7y ago

Oh wow. Did you just compare Bitcoin to the internet itself? Cameras too?! Please, get out of the crypto bubble.