Digital coins may be on the verge of going mainstream

Re:Digital coins may be on the verge of going mainstream by mathgenius on Friday August 04, 2017 @12:54AM (#14926390)

Perhaps the comparison should be to linux. Barely anyone knows what this is and yet it runs on most of the phones of the world & is behind most websites aswell. Linux had a long runway to get there.

Rusty Russell has a nice talk about this: https://medium.com/@rusty_lightning/transcript-my-20-year-jo...

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Re:Digital coins may be on the verge of going mainstream by davnicwil on Friday August 04, 2017 @01:53AM (#14926617)

Yeah, I also suspect this may be it. Cryptocurrency will be useful to consumers 'directly' in exactly the same sense that linux is useful to consumers 'directly' - it runs behind practically every service they touch every day.

The fact that many won't need to know or care that's the case, what it is, how it works, may be similarly irrelevant.

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Re:Digital coins may be on the verge of going mainstream by ghaff on Friday August 04, 2017 @10:05AM (#14928724)

Whether or not one agrees, I've heard many smart folks without a particular dog in the hunt compare blockchain today with the internet circa 1980.

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