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My point is that the true believers do want to eventually buy groceries with cryptocurrency. My point is that this conversation is unfair: Person A: I've just
by ragnese 5y ago
My point is that the true believers do want to eventually buy groceries with cryptocurrency.
My point is that this conversation is unfair:
Person A: I've just invented a new currency! I think it has better intrinsic properties than USD.
Person B: Well, I can't buy groceries with it right now, so it sucks.
Similar vein:
Person A: I've invented a new thing called the lightbulb. I think it will revolutionize lighting.
Person B: It's more expensive than oil lamps and electrifying buildings would be a massive undertaking. Lightbulbs suck.
- pydry 5y agoIf lightbulbs were primarily used for buying opium and running scams on widows in the 19th century I could well understand there being some pushback on the whole idea. As it was, they were primarily used for lighting rooms from the getgo. I imagine some historian could probably dig up some sort of analog from 100+ years ago (possibly on tech that never did take off) but this isn't it.