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Re:Accepting Bitcoin as a Small Business – 4 Years In, No Cu... by wheelie_boy on Friday March 01, 2019 @10:10AM (#19281291)
He's specifically talking about Linux on the Desktop, which is hovering around 2% market share ( http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide/... )

It might be that bitcoin is similar to linux - used as a backbone, but not customer friendly enough to ever be used directly by customers. Like maybe banks use it to transfer large amounts of money between each other or something.

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Re:Accepting Bitcoin as a Small Business – 4 Years In, No Cu... by v_lisivka on Friday March 01, 2019 @12:42PM (#19283310)
Almost 3%, if combined with ChromeOS. IMHO, it is huge success, even if we forget about Linux domination in market of supercomputers, servers, smartphones, and large segment of market in IoT and robotics.

Bitcoin is far far away from such success.

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Re:Accepting Bitcoin as a Small Business – 4 Years In, No Cu... by dnautics on Friday March 01, 2019 @02:14PM (#19284275)
> It might be that bitcoin is similar to linux - used as a backbone, but not customer friendly enough to ever be used directly by customers.

That's my point; I think this is a possible and not unreasonable outcome for Bitcoin.

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