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Bitcoin is a technology that has various use cases. Just because some person gives a sales pitch, doesn't mean that sales pitch becomes the benchmark by which t
by howdydoo 5y ago
Bitcoin is a technology that has various use cases. Just because some person gives a sales pitch, doesn't mean that sales pitch becomes the benchmark by which to measure the technology. Bitcoin is decentralized and does not have one stated goal. Many people use it for many different reasons.
If someone keeps changing their claims or is otherwise acting scummy, just ignore them. There are shysters in every industry.
- acdha 5y agoI realize you have a financial interest in us believing that but this isn’t random strangers but the entire movement dating back to the initial manifesto.
- howdydoo 5y agoI mean... no, the success of this burgeoning asset class does not depend on me convincing a single HN poster in a long-buried thread. And there never was a "manifesto", at least not one that I've ever heard about. But thanks anyway for the discussion I guess
- acdha 5y agoIf you’re unfamiliar, here’s a link: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
- howdydoo 5y agoWow you're right, that's quite a manifesto. Almost as provocative as this quicksort manifesto. https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~mjw03/PersonalWebpage/pdfs/quicksort.pdf https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~mjw03/PersonalWebpage/pdfs/quickso...