[Apocryphon]

It's still nice to dream of all this distributed computing activity going towards tangible real world benefits.

[tal8d]

Like a global realtime financial network that grants participants complete freedom to do as they please with their own money? Yeah.

[Apocryphon]

Every single word of that description is intangible.

[tal8d]

So is "free energy" and "cancer cure". Of course Bitcoin's intangibility has tangible benefits this very second, those others do not.

[Apocryphon]

Nuclear reactions and chemical formulas are technically tangible.

[tal8d]

uh huh, but their tangibility has as much to do with randomly modeling them as a proof of work in a crypto currency - as every potential tangible thing you can spend the currency on. That is to say: none.

[Apocryphon]

Physics is more tangible than mathematics.