At scale, you can't pay for coffee on a premium global blockchain. You'll need a peripheral financial ntwrk that settles on that blockchain.
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"For what we don't have an impossibility result tends to eventually happen" (attributed to
@el33th4xor I think)
Most impossible things can't be math-proven impossible. You just see lemmings jumping over the same cliff, as with identity and micropmts.
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On the flip side, many things experts opinionated were impossible turned out to be possible, for example Bitcoin.
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Bitcoin is a breakthrough, but no expert thought it was impossible. If you are referring to BGP, it doesn't say BTC is impossible.
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"When I first heard about Bitcoin, I thought it was impossible."
@jgarzik "proven that decentralized consensus was impossible." Maxwell -
They weren't experts back then.
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