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Re:Monopoly Without a Monopolist: An Economic Analysis of th... by trophycase on Friday September 08, 2017 @12:29AM (#15197853)
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?
Re:Monopoly Without a Monopolist: An Economic Analysis of th... by dajohnson89 on Friday September 08, 2017 @02:02AM (#15198187)
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 (#15198400)
> 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.