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Re:Goldman Sachs Is Setting Up a Cryptocurrency Trading Desk by spookthesunset on Thursday December 21, 2017 @09:41PM (#15984847)
> Saying that all this work, money and effort is something that will only benefits scammers is a bit unfair

It's entirely fair. Bitcoin is a solution in search of a problem. The only "solution" it's solved so far is lining the pockets of the folks at the top of its pyramid. Bitcoin has been around for, what, 9 years now? If it was going to see mainstream adoption, it would have happened a long time ago.

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Re:Goldman Sachs Is Setting Up a Cryptocurrency Trading Desk by tlrobinson on Thursday December 21, 2017 @10:15PM (#15985002)
9 years is a very short time for a foundational technology to go mainstream. The internet took ~25 years.
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Re:Goldman Sachs Is Setting Up a Cryptocurrency Trading Desk by bennytjia on Thursday December 21, 2017 @10:51PM (#15985146)
Which is a good thing. A "foundational technology" is foundational because it lets the new one builds on top of it faster. It reduces marginal time for new ones to become mainstream.
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