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Re:ZCash Will Be a Truly Anonymous Blockchain-Based Currency by runako on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @03:52PM (#12791100)
> the founders are incentivized to support Zcash for the long haul (at least for four years)

Four years is not the long haul when talking about a new currency.

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Re:ZCash Will Be a Truly Anonymous Blockchain-Based Currency by doubleyou on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @06:36PM (#12792381)
Four years is an extremely long time when talking about a new currency.
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Re:ZCash Will Be a Truly Anonymous Blockchain-Based Currency by asidiali on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @09:20PM (#12793202)
A currency from 2016, maybe. Not on the greater scale of things. I'd argue the dollar has only recently hit maturity in the past 50 years, being written into law in the 1790s [1]. The yuan has been around for over 2,000 years [2].

Currencies take time for sure.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_dollar?wprov=sfl...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_yuan?wprov=sfla1

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Re:ZCash Will Be a Truly Anonymous Blockchain-Based Currency by wyager on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @11:58PM (#12793770)
Bitcoin is extremely new on the grand scale of things and has already been around for nearly 8 years now. 4 years is nothing.
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