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>But, yes, cryptocurrency is an immature alternative market, so the myriad potential opportunities to deflower its purity are many a long year from being discovered and exploited.

Strange, the vast majority of complementary currencies simply work and have no existential crisis. Nobody dreams of a day when they live up to their full potential. People simply use them. Even stranger, the vast majority of cryptocurrencies are not designed to be complementary currencies and are subsequently never used for that purpose.

Here is an example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIR_Bank