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It's early days. Think Netscape.
It's not so early. People have been developing apps on top of Bitcoin Blockchain for years now. Ethereum has been almost 2 and half years ago. I am not expecting any unicorns like Google/Facebook but at least couple of dapps with actual customers (e.g. not couple hundred crypto fanatics that sign up to every dapp just to pump the price) that are growing revenue and customer base and seem like a legitimate business. I…
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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
Recommended watching: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1596363/
..."People want an authority to tell them how to value things, but they choose this authority not based on facts or results. They choose it because it feels authoritative and familiar."
By this logic we should be using tax payers money to compensate people who suffered losses in ICOs. And we should also use tax payers money to pay the bonuses of the ICO leading CEOs afterwards. How can this be: https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-a-blast-from-a-financial-cri...
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#63This is delusional. From Apple's Wikipedia:
"Between September 1977 and September 1980, yearly sales grew from $775,000 to $118 million, an average annual growth rate of 533%"
They were selling products that people wanted for profit. Comparing ICOs to this is ludicrous and seems to me to encapsulate the hazy thinking of this entire sector.
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#64Cryptocurrencies created a completely anarchic monetary system, which people have used to layer investment systems on top of. Naturally, low hanging fruit scams and cons have arisen, and some form of governing structure will eventually be imposed, if not by actual governments, then by the community. Then more sophisticated abuses and negative externalities will arise, and ever more sophisticated regulations will be imposed by the community to thwart them.
In the end you may end up with something very much looking like a government, where people with connections and leverage in the governing structures get to decide the evolution of the rules, where a few players with disproportionate wealth or hashing power, help elect those people to committee positions. And once again, people will be looking to create systems to escape the defacto control and cronyism imposed on the system.
I guess what I'm saying is, nature abhors a vacuum, and given human nature, most systems will evolve to thwart the worse tendencies of the worst people, opening opportunities for others to capture power. So in the end, rather than seek to bring down our democratically elected government monetary systems via technology, we should seek to evolve them with ideas from technology.
Because booting out fiat currency and rebooting with crypto really just forces a painful relearning of all of the lessons we've learned in the last century of modern finance.
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#65> Imagine you’re investing in Apple in 1980. There is plenty of risk involved and you’re still not sure this Jobs kid has what it takes, but do you like the idea? The mission? The product? This is delusional. From Apple's Wikipedia: "Between September 1977 and September 1980, yearly sales grew from $775,000 to $118 million, an average annual growth rate of 533%" They were selling products that people wanted for profi…
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#66> Imagine you’re investing in Apple in 1980. There is plenty of risk involved and you’re still not sure this Jobs kid has what it takes, but do you like the idea? The mission? The product? This is delusional. From Apple's Wikipedia: "Between September 1977 and September 1980, yearly sales grew from $775,000 to $118 million, an average annual growth rate of 533%" They were selling products that people wanted for profi…
I am preparing new products to match this demand.
Instead of bashing an entire line of business, maybe you should too.
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#67Every few decades, libertarians need to be reminded why regulations exist. Time passes, and people forget why the SEC, FTC, FDA, FDIC, OSHA, child labor laws, et al were even created. Cryptocurrencies created a completely anarchic monetary system, which people have used to layer investment systems on top of. Naturally, low hanging fruit scams and cons have arisen, and some form of governing structure will eventually…
At that time it'll gain momentum and thwart the current system.
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Name 1 that has used that capital to achieve over 10$ million in profit per year.
It's early days. Think Netscape.
Netscape was formed in April of 1994 so we are talking about 9 months after creation they had revenue of 5mil. First website was launched at the end of December 1990 so less than 4.5 years before. Blockchain is significantly older at this point.
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This sentiment comes up in almost every crypto thread and I think it's a bit misguided. It's referred to as crypto because...that's how people know it. Google trends explains my point better than I ever could. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...
It also shows that this conflation is very, very recent. I assume this is either because some people realized that there is "more than bitcoin" now, so you can't keep saying "bitcoin" and mean all the cryptocurrencies, and they just thought "jeez, cryptocurrency is such a complicated word. Let's just use crypto!" In any case, crypto has been established as short for cryptography for far longer than any of these curre…
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#70I'll bite. How does a slow, expensive, global time-stamping service which cannot scale to billions or even tens of millions of users create a foundation for a sound business model to track all the food?