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Paper sheets and butter may be anonymous too, but its difficult to store it in digital form. Yes, he completely misses the point. It is digital and distributed
by bdhe 15y ago
Paper sheets and butter may be anonymous too, but its difficult to store it in digital form.
Yes, he completely misses the point. It is digital and distributed. Moreover, the old adage about newspaper titles rings true here: If a newspaper title ends in a question mark, you can probably replace the entire article with the word "no".
- ordinary 15y agoIn fairness, the question mark was added on HN. The article title is "So, that's the end of Bitcoin then".
- bdhe 15y agoSorry, my mistake.
- spodek 15y agoMoreover, the piece is riddled with incorrect grammar, punctuation, and capitalization. Such errors don't necessarily mean the piece is poor, but it does imply it. It also implies it wasn't edited well. His piece ends with "It’s difficult to see what the currency has going for it." This statement describes his imagination, or lack thereof, saying nothing about bitcoin.
- Steko 15y agoYour definition of "riddled" and mine must be different. Going after former article titles and punctuation are not strong counter-arguments.