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by BLKNSLVR 1298 days ago
It's a long time in technology, but that's just the foundation upon which it's built. The industry it's placing itself alongside to compete with is one of the pillars of society, and as such 13 years is a long time to survive in competition, but also a short time in which to create a defendable position.

It took 20 years to go from the car phone suitcase in Lethal Weapon to the first release iPhone.

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By the mid-1990s, tens—if not hundreds—of million of people had mobile phone subscriptions, and those who didn’t clearly understood the tech offered humanity a profoundly new ability: communicate anywhere, all the time.

What’s the crypto equivalent?

Estimates I could find online put the number of bitcoin users between 25-150 million.