Re:Monopoly Without a Monopolist: An Economic Analysis of th...
by trophycase on Friday September 08, 2017 @12:29AM
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You don't need a globally redundant ledger to store your coffee purchases. The benefits of a blockchain over traditional financial systems is borderlessness and censorship resistance. Nobody is stopping you from buying coffee, why would you need a blockchain?
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Re:Monopoly Without a Monopolist: An Economic Analysis of th...
by dajohnson89 on Friday September 08, 2017 @02:02AM
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Expand from coffee to hamburgers, to gas station purchases, to groceries, etc, and soon you have ruled out a major percentage of the consumer economy. Not a deal breaker, but lots of hype for crypto is how it can replace fiat transactions wholesale or damn near it.
Re:Monopoly Without a Monopolist: An Economic Analysis of th...
by quickthrower2 on Friday September 08, 2017 @03:13AM
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> The benefits of a blockchain over traditional financial systems is borderlessness and censorship resistance.
That's a subjective viewpoint. I might just want to earn my salary in Bitcoin and spend it, like a currency.