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A comment on Delaying the Inevitable: Muir Glacier and the Ethereum Difficulty Bomb. Parent comment

Re:Delaying the Inevitable: Muir Glacier and the Ethereum Di... by bananabreakfast on Friday January 03, 2020 @03:01PM (#21949726)
You're completely missing the point raised though.

They said there are no real uses of this technology outside of speculation and laundering and your response is that tools for speculation and laundering are useful. That's not really what the argument is here.

The argument is that this technology is being touted as diverse and widely popular when it in fact is not and mostly only used in circular use cases involving itself.

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Re:Delaying the Inevitable: Muir Glacier and the Ethereum Di... by flarex on Friday January 03, 2020 @03:47PM (#21950165)
No I just said you can use it for saving and borrowing which have nothing to do with speculation or money laundering. Also it’s impossible to tell what percentage of transactions are related to money laundering in crypto and you can’t outright dismiss legit use cases because of this.
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