Re:Bitcoin surpasses $50K as major companies jump into crypto
by noch on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @05:18AM
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> It's ironic. Bitcoin will just be relegated to a settlement layer.
Not ironic at all. Bitcoin is supposed to be a robust, decentralised, censorship resistant settlement layer. That's literally the point. It's the base protocol.
We don't, after all, expect users to care about TCP/IP whenever they post to TikTok.
But it's reasonable, based on current trends, to predict that the number of full nodes will continue to increase all over the world.
Not ironic at all. Bitcoin is supposed to be a robust, decentralised, censorship resistant settlement layer. That's literally the point. It's the base protocol.
We don't, after all, expect users to care about TCP/IP whenever they post to TikTok.
But it's reasonable, based on current trends, to predict that the number of full nodes will continue to increase all over the world.