[mutteraloo]

So 10-15 more years? In the meantime we can use blockchain/bitcoin to scam money from grandmas, retired folks, and millenials. So they can hate us technologists even more.

Oh, and cause global warming and destroy the planet. That way humans will have to come up with a non-government backed currency.

[dang]

We've banned this account for repeatedly violating the HN guidelines. Would you please stop creating accounts to do that with? Ideological battle, flamewars, and personal attacks are not wanted here.

[zmonx]

25 years for acceptance are very well aligned with the timeline that Richard P. Gabriel has outlined in "Models of Software Acceptance":

• Technology in the lab (t=0)

• Technology in the first company (t=2–10 years post-lab)

• Technology in the first successful company (t=5–20 years post-lab)

• Technology acceptance (t=10–25 years post-lab)

Source:

https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/AcceptanceModels.pdf

In these slides, Richard gives several examples that match this model and includes several additional explanations.

For example:

• First window system: Stanford/SRI/Xerox PARC ~1975, MIT ~1976

• First commercial use: Symbolics (1979), LMI (1979), Xerox Star (~1980), Apple Lisa (~1982), Apple Macintosh (1984)

• First use by a successful company: Microsoft (~1989)

• Technology acceptance: Microsoft (~1995)

Spreadsheets are another example that is given in the slides. In fact, 25 years for acceptance are quite common in software. Sometimes, it also takes much longer.

[ThomPete]

The internet was based on a foundational protocol built to withstand nuclear attacks and is 50 years old.

Either you understand this perspective or you don't.

We are talking about blockchain not one of the ways it can be realized, bitcoin.

Furthermore, I gave a couple of examples of how the blockchain can be used no one is being scammed with that. In fact it allows for things that have never been possible before because you will not see nation-states work together in any meaningful way to solve these problems.

[kindfellow92]

I’m worth 13 million dollars because of crypto and I’ve diversified half... tell me more about how Bitcoin is a scam. :)

[oh_sigh]

Im worth 16m because if the tulip bulbs I own.

Did you diversify into other crypto currencies? You are only worth anything once you actually cash out into USD

[kindfellow92]

I diversified 6mm into index funds and bond funds on Vanguard :)

[mutteraloo]

I'm worth way more than 13 million, and you will most likely lose your million because you can't read :)

[kindfellow92]

I can read. I’m a millennial and I haven’t been scammed. Bitcoin is changing lives for the better and has allowed me and my family to join you in wealth but you seem to hate that.