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Re:Did Bitcoin just prove it can't scale? by moduspol on Saturday December 09, 2017 @12:09PM (#15886725)
Oh it absolutely is. I'll acknowledge that. If Bitcoin is amazing at 7/12 of the things it set out to do, and sticking to those seven will pave the way for the other five to be done by other cryptocurrencies, that's fair to me.
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Re:Did Bitcoin just prove it can't scale? by matt4077 on Saturday December 09, 2017 @12:22PM (#15886794)
Yeah, well.... It would seem "transactions" should be among the things that a currency does well.
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Re:Did Bitcoin just prove it can't scale? by fooker on Saturday December 09, 2017 @02:02PM (#15887379)
Not necessarily. Bags of grain or N cows did not do transactions well. Yet they were successful as currencies for millennia.
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Re:Did Bitcoin just prove it can't scale? by statguy on Saturday December 09, 2017 @04:36PM (#15888297)
times have changed since...
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Re:Did Bitcoin just prove it can't scale? by 20after4 on Sunday December 10, 2017 @01:15AM (#15890231)
I'm pretty sure bags of grain are still a significant unit of value exchange[1].

[1] yep: http://www.nasdaq.com/markets/wheat.aspx

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Re:Did Bitcoin just prove it can't scale? by fooker on Sunday December 10, 2017 @08:00AM (#15891213)
They have, and we have bitcoins instead of bags of grain.
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