Are cryptocurrencies about to go mainstream?
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Are cryptocurrencies about to go mainstream?
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#2If a headline is a question, the answer is always no. Otherwise, the headline would not be stated as a question, but as an assertion of fact.
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#3If The Guardian is writing about it — no. The hype is over.
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#4Yes, and 2017 is the year of the Linux Desktop. We can barely get stores to use EMV/chip card readers, so I'd have to say no.
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#5If a headline is a question, the answer is always no. Otherwise, the headline would not be stated as a question, but as an assertion of fact.
Haha, good point
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#6If a headline is a question, the answer is always no. Otherwise, the headline would not be stated as a question, but as an assertion of fact.
This is known as Betteridge's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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#7This article can be summed up by the bottom page quote “Prices right now aren’t being driven by network usage, they’re being driven by speculation that tokens are going to appreciate. It’s a gold-rush mentality.”
Also everytime I see yet another Ethereum story I think of http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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#8Yes, and 2017 is the year of the Linux Desktop. We can barely get stores to use EMV/chip card readers, so I'd have to say no.
In the UK and Europe Chip and NFC are prevalent.
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#9If a headline is a question, the answer is always no. Otherwise, the headline would not be stated as a question, but as an assertion of fact.
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#10Not until they can really explain to the average Joe why cryptocurrencies are such a good thing.
Because at the end of the day, privacy is nowhere near as important to many people are it arguably should be, and trying to market cryptocurrencies as 'independent from government control' is likely a losing proposition.
Same with most of the reasons involved I've seen invoked for why to use Bitcoin or the likes online. They're logical, but they're also likely to fly straight over the heads of most of the population.
Add the deliberate way that governments and the media try and portray cryptocurrencies as being used for 'criminal' purposes (which has given these currencies a bit of an image problem), and you've got something that seems very unlikely to ever truly go mainstream.