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> This is clearly transformative. [...] The implications are still unclear Around the time Bitcoin originated (or at least when the name was finally decided up
by pmachinery 6y ago
> This is clearly transformative. [...] The implications are still unclear
Around the time Bitcoin originated (or at least when the name was finally decided upon and the domain registered), the first commercial Android device was launched.
Since then the latter creation has put interconnected computers literally into the hands of virtually everyone on the planet, allowing for numerous other technologies, industries and markets to be built upon it.
That's clearly transformative.
What has "blockchain" transformed? Still unclear? After 12 years, that means clear.
- roenxi 6y agoThat isn't a very solid argument - they had ISPs and TCP/IP and emails in 1970s [0] and yet HTTP/Netscape/Amazon/Google/the rest of what the modern internet is used for didn't exist before the 90s. Transformation doesn't have to happen quickly. [0] https://www.wired.com/2012/12/queen-and-the-internet/ https://www.wired.com/2012/12/queen-and-the-internet/
- pmachinery 6y ago> That isn't a very solid argument - they had ISPs and TCP/IP and emails in 1970s [0] and yet HTTP/Netscape/Amazon/Google/the rest of what the modern internet is used for didn't exist before the 90s. No, not a solid argument would be counting the adoption of "blockchain" from when it was created, but everything else from the 1970s for some reason.