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Your response is as rhetoric as the rhetoric opinions you are mocking.

It is not trivial to think that a $600B asset that cannot be touched or used to buy daily groceries for majority of population is "useful" or taken seriously. This has never happened in our history, people will take time to adjust.

Also, some of the questions being raised are absolutely worth listening to and responding by either an explanation or changing the blockchain logic. High energy consumption, taxation, inflationary vs deflationary crypto, block sizes, abysmal transacction rates, Central bank crypto, moving BTC on Ethereum, etc are all questions worth thinking about.




Blockchain topics have become a proxy war for Keynes/Hayek poorly framed as a technical discussion. I think most people who are passionately against crypto hold that view for non-technical reasons and more related to monetary policy. Which is valid, but suckers like me used to think questions like yours were posted in good-faith. I'd answer questions such as upgrades to PoW/PoS, TX rate limitations, side-chains, multi-sig, etc. After enough down-votes for factual answers you realize it was never about the technology.


Indeed.

It's about the money.




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