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I understand now. You are saying that in the past to create your own currency you needed as much money as a grocery store or airline to create "reward points",
by gitfan86 5y ago
I understand now. You are saying that in the past to create your own currency you needed as much money as a grocery store or airline to create "reward points", or "airline miles". Now it costs less and is easier to create your own version of that.
- betwixthewires 5y agoOr mint chuck e cheese tokens, yes. But also, and more importantly, because it is easy they'll be everywhere.
- gitfan86 5y agoWhy will it be everywhere? Were there a lot of people wanting to have their own reward points but didn't move forward because of the time/cost to implement?
- betwixthewires 5y agoNo, but it doesn't have to be for good reasons. Was there unmet demand for supercomputers to stare at while taking a shit 20 years ago? 20 years ago only big companies could do it. Now anyone can do it, so they will. There are over 15,000 cryptocurrencies of one kind or another right now. When anyone can spin one up for peanuts lots of people will.
- gitfan86 5y agoYes, 20 years ago there was an enormous demand for being able to watch any show you wanted at any time, in any place.