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Comment by KasianFranks | Hacker News Reader

Love it. HN is going to hate on this as it's a positive regarding crypto.

If HN "hates it" it will be because of the artificial promotion (brand-new submitting account, brand new positive commenting account, and 10 magical upvotes in the first few minutes).

We'll see about that. Crytpo is real, it's for the un-banked around the world who also do not have clean water and that's about 1/3 the population of Earth and those make about $1/day. Give it a break. Ref: https://hackernoon.com/blockchain-mohammed-on-the-blockchain...

You're dreaming. M-pesa and similar systems beat Bitcoin by a wide margin on everything the unbanked care about.

We're not only talking about Bitcoin, there are 2k other crypto's on deck. Adapt.

They all lose to M-pesa and its equivalents for what the unbanked care about. Decentralization does not solve a problem that any of these people have.

Is ethereum a bubble? Or is it creating an ICO bubble ecosystem and it will win out?

Dude, wtf? If you are going to provide a "reference" at least make sure it's about a real person and not an imaginary African a "former pentagon analyst and blockchain advocate" wrote about.

Also to a certain extent, I agree with your comment, "crypto is real". But is bitcoin? Maybe it was but now it's so unstable I can't use it to buy shit and neither can the hypothetical poor man discussed above.

I think this is a flaw in the current implementation. But not many "blockchain advocates" seem to be writing about that. I wonder why?

This is what it feels like to be "disrupted". Don't fight it, pivot and adapt.

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