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"The number of Bitcoin users in Argentina is relatively small; it barely registers on most charts of global Bitcoin usage." That's the very definition of not d

"The number of Bitcoin users in Argentina is relatively small; it barely registers on most charts of global Bitcoin usage." That's the very definition of not disrupting.

fips140 12y ago
Oh, go back to bed sourpuss
DickingAround 12y ago
Requiring any disruption to take broad effect before saying it's a 'disruption' makes that word useless. That would be like saying a crack in a wall doesn't matter till the wall falls over. The real question is whether this is hairline crack that the rebar of their society will keep in place or if it's a crack that's unchecked and will continue to grow?
- davidgerard 12y ago
  Requiring a disruption to at least barely register is pretty fair though. Bitcoin itself barely registers as an economic disruption (though it's got a lot of coverage for its reputational relation to criminals and scams), and this "disruption" barely registers in relation to something that barely registers. This article is a press release for a book.
  - juanignacio 12y ago
    It may disrupt the traditional way money is moved around in the River Plate: in bags and attached to body in the ferry to Montevideo.
- bencollier49 12y ago
  "Threatens to disrupt".
  - kleer001 12y ago
    Good call. That would have been wholly correct, enthusiastic, optimistic, and I would have still clicked the link.
- kleer001 12y ago
  > That would be like saying a crack in a wall doesn't matter till the wall falls over. If you point at a crack in the wall and say "The wall is falling over!" I'm going to laugh in your face. Then I'll get some spackle.
- mikeash 12y ago
  How does it make the word useless? For your wall analogy, let's look at the word "destroy." A crack starts in the wall, and grows until the wall falls over. At this point, the wall is destroyed. But when the crack that eventually destroys the wall is still small, is the wall "destroyed" at that point? Of course not. Does that make the word "destroyed" useless? Not at all.

"The number of Bitcoin users in Argentina is relatively small; it barely registers on most charts of global Bitcoin usage." That's the very definition of not disrupting.

fips140 12y ago

Oh, go back to bed sourpuss

DickingAround 12y ago

Requiring any disruption to take broad effect before saying it's a 'disruption' makes that word useless. That would be like saying a crack in a wall doesn't matter till the wall falls over. The real question is whether this is hairline crack that the rebar of their society will keep in place or if it's a crack that's unchecked and will continue to grow?

davidgerard 12y ago
Requiring a disruption to at least barely register is pretty fair though. Bitcoin itself barely registers as an economic disruption (though it's got a lot of coverage for its reputational relation to criminals and scams), and this "disruption" barely registers in relation to something that barely registers. This article is a press release for a book.
- juanignacio 12y ago
  It may disrupt the traditional way money is moved around in the River Plate: in bags and attached to body in the ferry to Montevideo.
bencollier49 12y ago
"Threatens to disrupt".
- kleer001 12y ago
  Good call. That would have been wholly correct, enthusiastic, optimistic, and I would have still clicked the link.
kleer001 12y ago
> That would be like saying a crack in a wall doesn't matter till the wall falls over. If you point at a crack in the wall and say "The wall is falling over!" I'm going to laugh in your face. Then I'll get some spackle.
mikeash 12y ago
How does it make the word useless? For your wall analogy, let's look at the word "destroy." A crack starts in the wall, and grows until the wall falls over. At this point, the wall is destroyed. But when the crack that eventually destroys the wall is still small, is the wall "destroyed" at that point? Of course not. Does that make the word "destroyed" useless? Not at all.