Bitcoin.org removes “fast” and “low fees” from Bitcoin description page

Re:Bitcoin.org removes “fast” and “low fees” from Bitcoin de... by krrrh on Monday January 22, 2018 @11:20AM (#16205528)

> just like the internet wasn't all that exciting in the early 90s.

Anyone who believes this probably wasn’t alive then.

Everything we take for granted is built on open and free (as in beer) protocols. The people who created and supported TCP/IP, HTTP, XMPP, etc. figured out ways to have successful careers without a micropayment scheme for basic participation.

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Re:Bitcoin.org removes “fast” and “low fees” from Bitcoin de... by monadmancer on Monday January 22, 2018 @05:06PM (#16208404)

That is true. And then we ended up with Facebook, Amazon and Google et al to handle the rest. I'll take micropayment schemes over centralized megacorps. At least for now.

And personally, I remember a simultaneous mix of excitement and disappointment from the internet of the 90s.

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