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Re:CEO of a top Bitcoin exchange warns: crackdown on cryptoc... by arcticbull on Monday April 12, 2021 @05:27PM (#26785425)
Generally speaking we don't need to wait as long as the previous iteration existed to prove the new generation is successful.

For instance, I think it's fair to say e-mail is a success, even though the first postal system was established under Cryus the Great in 550 BCE in Persia. The first e-mail was sent in 1971. Are you saying we won't be able to declare victory on e-mail until the year 4492?

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Re:CEO of a top Bitcoin exchange warns: crackdown on cryptoc... by Closi on Monday April 12, 2021 @05:52PM (#26785656)
You are right! So I should invest in emails right? I'm sure emails will get more valuable as time goes on.
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Re:CEO of a top Bitcoin exchange warns: crackdown on cryptoc... by XorNot on Monday April 12, 2021 @11:15PM (#26787768)
A useful currency is not one which increases in value.
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Re:CEO of a top Bitcoin exchange warns: crackdown on cryptoc... by arcticbull on Monday April 12, 2021 @06:01PM (#26785728)
Well I hear "bitcoin is TCP/IP" and for some reason people are trying to buy that lol, so can't lose.
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Re:CEO of a top Bitcoin exchange warns: crackdown on cryptoc... by bko on Monday April 12, 2021 @06:56PM (#26786206)
Sure. I think people will be sending physical mail to each other longer than using pop3 smtp and imap
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Re:CEO of a top Bitcoin exchange warns: crackdown on cryptoc... by arcticbull on Monday April 12, 2021 @07:15PM (#26786330)
Obviously. However, that doesn't mean email isn't trivially an improvement lol. And it certainly doesn't mean we need to wait two thousand years to make that claim. C'mon now, that's patently ridiculous.
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