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Like a global realtime financial network that grants participants complete freedom to do as they please with their own money? Yeah.

• Apocryphon 6y ago
  Every single word of that description is intangible.
  • tal8d 6y ago
    So is "free energy" and "cancer cure". Of course Bitcoin's intangibility has tangible benefits this very second, those others do not.
    • Apocryphon 6y ago
      Nuclear reactions and chemical formulas are technically tangible.
      • tal8d 6y ago
        uh huh, but their tangibility has as much to do with randomly modeling them as a proof of work in a crypto currency - as every potential tangible thing you can spend the currency on. That is to say: none.
        • Apocryphon 6y ago
          Physics is more tangible than mathematics.
          • tal8d 6y ago
            ah, I see the problem now. You should open with that line in all your exchanges, you'd get fewer people trying to explain to you how you're wrong.
            • Apocryphon 6y ago
              Actually, the proof of work exists. https://xkcd.com/435/ https://xkcd.com/435/