Bitcoin is 15 years old.
To put that in perspective:
The web started in 1991. 15 years later, in 2006, we had youtube, twitter, amazon, ebay - the world was unrecognisable.
What have we got in that timeframe from #blockchain? Ashes.
"A thriving market for magic beans doesn't make the magic beanstalk real." - lib.rs
@noboilerplate Isn't Bitcoin working exactly as intended?
I like how Ukraine could use it to receive funds and pay for arms when Russia shut down the banking system early during the 2022 attack.
@noboilerplate If you believe that to be the primary goal I think you've experienced Bitcoin somewhere past 2017 and not in 2009.
No one in the early days of Bitcoin were thinking about self-enrichment. People gave away bitcoin in "fountains" just to get the economy started - and this took place well up to 2012.
Being uncensorable by a state actor is however one of the primary goals - which is why Ukraine were able to use it when Russia killed all their banking (as well as Wikileaks back when they were sane-ish in 2010 and blocked by all banks, Paypal and VISA/Mastercard).
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