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"it's harmful" and."I don't like it" doesn't make it unsucessful. Cigarettes are wildly successful. Thousands of people, from uninteresting individuals to billi
by gowld 6y ago
"it's harmful" and."I don't like it" doesn't make it unsucessful. Cigarettes are wildly successful. Thousands of people, from uninteresting individuals to billionaires and banks, are spending their resources to engage with it.
- cosmodisk 6y agoDefine success. Are cigarettes successful for their manufacturers? Yes, absolutely,they are swimming in money. Is it a success to other stakeholders? No, it's not. Bitcoin is a huge success to the speculators riding the wave or early adopters who held it long enough. If smaller groups benefit from it, that doesn't necessarily mean it is universally successful.
- wanderingstan 6y agoThis is like arguing the iPhone was not a "success" because walled garden appstores are bad, or because app addiction is bad. Either of those may be true, but the iPhone was still a sucess. Bitcoin was a daring experiment in game theory, open-source protocol, and human incentives, and is a success by any common-sense measures: - Adoption of the protocol - Money devoted to protol - Human attention given to the project - Number of computers running it's code
- yortpyperty 6y agoI don't see anything successful about this comment.