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by WeylandYutani 1296 days ago
It's been 15 years now I think? And still cryptocurrency mainly revolves around speculation. It's adoption as a currency has been... lacking.
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Close, almost 14yrs. Launched Jan 2009. Bitcoin's economic design incentivizes saving rather than spending, so it's no big surprise that's what's happening. DeFi currently is all about using loans to make money speculating, so yeah, but it's still kinda new so jury's still out on whether it might develop into something more broadly useful.
>but it's still kinda new so jury's still out on whether it might develop into something more broadly useful

Lol. Lmao, even.