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Doesn't the fact that bitcoin hasn't taken off yet kind of validate the reservations that HN has? If Dropbox was still at 100 active users 10 years later, woul
by phreeza 6y ago
Doesn't the fact that bitcoin hasn't taken off yet kind of validate the reservations that HN has?
If Dropbox was still at 100 active users 10 years later, would someone be complaining about the dismissive comments HN had at the launch announcement?
- patricius 6y agoWhat should happen for you to say that Bitcoin has taken off?
- phreeza 6y agoI guess I should clarify that I mean scepticism relative to what early proponents of bitcoin were suggesting would happen. So by taken off I mean things like replacing fiat currency in everyday use for a large number of people. Edit: Compare to that what Dropbox may have suggested at their launch, something like "we will replace USB thumb drives", which would have sounded very ambitious at the time but was in fact pretty much true, for a large number of people.