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Yet Bitcoin's market cap is $500 Billion and has a trading volume is over $10 billion per day and has been outperforming the markets for over a decade.

If the financial system is fine, then how is it possible that a 'scam' is worth $500 billion? What kind of financial system allows such scam to exist for over a decade and keeps attracting investors year after year?

If the financial system is not fine, then how could you say a blockchain like Bitcoin is a solution looking for a problem?

That position doesn't make sense from any angle.

And anyway, I've explained clearly what is the advantage of blockchain:

- It's a system which supports unlimited reads at scale.

- Spam-resistant when it comes to writes.

- Its data can be verified independently so there is no need to trust service operators.

Those are the most important characteristics of a DNS. Sadly the current system is missing the third point and that's why nobody truly owns their domain names. Everyone is merely renting from a TLD provider and hope that the laws of whatever country it's in are going to respect your claims.



I said Blockchain, not Bitcoin.

Bitcoins "value" it that it's a pyramid scheme along time, early "investors" profit when they get out. Market cap means nothing when you run out of difficulty ;)

Anyhow I'll leave you to your delusions and get on with my life. Toodle-oo!


>I'll leave you to your delusions and get on with my life

That's easy to say when you are living in a country with access to a healthy financial system, this is a luxury, not norm.


Thankfully you don't have any idea of my (current) location.

I could be anywhere in the world. Even nextdoor to you ;)

You and GP still would be deluded however.




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