Re:How Bitcoin Is Disrupting Argentina’s Economy
by kragen on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @04:58PM
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The Buquebus and Sea-Cat ferries (and the cuevas, etc.) are the incumbent. As I understand Christensen’s idea, a disruption is new, worse than the incumbent (for the incumbent's customers), cheaper, and adequate for some new customers. Without opining on whether Christensen’s ideas are accurate or valuable in any kind of predictive or analytic sense, I will say that Bitcoin in Argentina certainly seems like a textbook case.
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Re:How Bitcoin Is Disrupting Argentina’s Economy
by cperciva on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @08:57PM
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The ferries are the incumbent disruptor of Argentina's economy. Bitcoin is disrupting the Argentinian economy-disrupting industry.
Re:How Bitcoin Is Disrupting Argentina’s Economy
by w1ntermute on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @10:14PM
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It's a multilayered disruption machine: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/06/23/the-disruption-...
Re:How Bitcoin Is Disrupting Argentina’s Economy
by kragen on Thursday April 30, 2015 @01:41AM
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Your comment disrupted my comment, Colin. But I think I need to go disrupt a bed, because right now my thinking processes are too disrupted by fatigue to properly disrupt HN. Disrupt you very much!