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Re:Goldman Sachs Is Setting Up a Cryptocurrency Trading Desk by profalseidol on Friday December 22, 2017 @02:27AM (#15985830)
Analogy is good. It does not however tell us that it will be the case, especially if you look at the development community around Bitcoin. While Ethereum, serious innovative stuff is happening but is not being aggresively marketed for good reasons.
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Re:Goldman Sachs Is Setting Up a Cryptocurrency Trading Desk by VMG on Friday December 22, 2017 @02:33AM (#15985846)
Ethereum has been hyping proof-of-stake since version one and delivers Cryptokittens instead.
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Re:Goldman Sachs Is Setting Up a Cryptocurrency Trading Desk by wastedhours on Friday December 22, 2017 @03:34AM (#15986063)
Cryptokitties is an important step. It's helping to normalise the discussion around crypto, showcasing a different example of value exchange based on it, and making people comfortable with that style of transaction.

It's like Snapchat's dog-face filter is the normalising step for AR, you need the small, novel things to move the needle.

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