alt Hacker NewsYou'll get nothing but up votes here on HN, a lot are still angry they missed the boat.
But solving the problem of how to transfer value trustlessly and anonymously, instantly anywhere in the world is one of the biggest breakthroughs since the Internet.
Amazing how in a few short years kids started growing up with Bitcoin and don't understand how it work or why it exists :(
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It’s an interesting technical problem to solve. But after 15y still has no meaningful benefits for our societies. Other than gambling/speculation/illegal stuff. The transformative cryptocurrency shift didn’t happen
Well, it seems he wasn't, he's not gonna get upvotes though, HN is startup culture and startup culture is selling dreams until it works or you notice too late you got robbed.
And who's gonna admit that bitcoin is a ponzi scheme when all of their savings are in it? you can't, it would devalue your own money, so you're trapped, you can only further invest in it.
It was mainly the early wall street types that cashed in big. If it was used as suggested by satoshi, then you were using it as spending cash rather than an investment to sit on, in which case you shouldn't have made much money on it.
If it's actually a transformative technology, there's no boat to miss.
But it's still mostly about the speculation, it seems.