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by thisisit 2962 days ago
The only question I have after reading is - What does cryptocurrency actually mean according to the post?

Is it a digital currency?

But, USD is already mostly digital.

Or is it like a real cryptocurrency?

But, the selling point of cryptocurrency is decentralization.

Even if we ignore the decentralization, cryptocurrency has a lot of unresolved issues to work at a massive scale.

PoW burns a lot of energy. And PoS works by making rich richer because of the staking mechanism.

Transaction times on a huge scale network is slow. Yes, there is Lighting/Raiden etc being released but let's wait for it to be proven before we jump the gun.

Before someone says what about centralized cryptocurrency?

That is same as the digital USD. How will cryptocurrency be any different?