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Claim: The answer is no. Proof: Bitcoin requires the Internet to function. Therefore, the things disrupted by Bitcoin are a subset of the things disrupted b
by csense 13y ago
Claim: The answer is no.
Proof: Bitcoin requires the Internet to function. Therefore, the things disrupted by Bitcoin are a subset of the things disrupted by the Internet. The Internet can be used for disruptive things other than Bitcoin, so the things disrupted by Bitcoin are a proper subset of the things disrupted by the Internet.
Since the total number of things in both categories is finite, this means fewer things are disrupted by Bitcoin than are disrupted by the Internet.
QED.
- eof 13y agoI originally thought this; but ultimately have to disagree. Several problems: 1. "the internet" is a pretty nebulous term. bitcoin certainly requires computer networks, which generally require tcp/ip; but bitcoin could technically function on a darknet, which could arguably be "not the internet". 2. the internet relies on the power grid, which itself relies on copper wire; which essentially, and eventually, says, by your logic, that the internet is a subset of the things disrupted by copper mining. now i actually agree that in the end the internet is a bigger disruptor; but i don't think your proof holds.
- csense 13y agoThe Internet could have happened on a planet without copper. Could Bitcoin have happened on a planet without the internet?