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Blockchain, cryptocurrency, and smart contracts pioneer. (RT/Fav/Follow does not imply endorsement). Blog: http://unenumerated.blogspot.com 

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    1. Nick Szabo  🔑‏ @NickSzabo4 Jul 12
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      "Beware of...beliefs..about very improbable outcomes that could have very large positive or negative consequences ... " History is usually a far more reliable guide to future events than such speculation. https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2012/07/pascals-scams.html …

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    2. davidegallo‏ @davidegallo Jul 12
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      Like for instance BTC to become a global currency ?

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    3. Nick Szabo  🔑‏ @NickSzabo4 Jul 12
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      As a technological matter, that's not improbable or speculative: there are good objective and historically based reasons for expecting the most trust-minimized cryptocurrency(s) to win. Political reactions and efforts to stop the superior technology are another matter.

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    4. davidegallo‏ @davidegallo Jul 12
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      Thanks Nick.BTC has undeniably the first mover advantage and the strongest community, not sure it is the best technology, because technology evolves faster than adoption of the new money paradigm. BTC has many issues that only believers and speculative observers can overlook.

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      Nick Szabo  🔑‏ @NickSzabo4 Jul 12
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      They're generally far from being overlooked by Bitcoin developers. The vast majority of these issues are just altcoin marketing points for which the coin doesn't have a solution that doesn't make some more important aspect, usually trust minimization, far worse.

      3:14 PM - 12 Jul 2019
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        2. davidegallo‏ @davidegallo Jul 12
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          TPS, energy consumption , degrading exponentially with adoption are hard to fix, as is the ASIC exploitability. Distribution inequality is not a technical issue, neither is oligopolistic coltrol over the mining. Altcoins are not silver bullets either, but help to progress faster.

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        3. Hanakookie‏ @Hanakookie1 Jul 12
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          Alts don’t help at all. It’s a masquerade of technicalities. You can’t fake hardness, costliness, or salebility. Take those away and you get fiat and game credits aka tokens. We have a long history of what has worked. None of what you mention meets that. Sorry.

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        4. davidegallo‏ @davidegallo Jul 12
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          Beliefs, that was my initial point, thanks for confirming the thesis.

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        5. Saiyan dude‏ @Kediri_020 Jul 12
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          Miners don't control Bitcoin consensus.

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        6. davidegallo‏ @davidegallo Jul 14
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          Consensus is an instrument, they control the creation and transfer of value, if you believe that BTC has intrinsic value .

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