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>Is Bitcoin, a very low level protocol, more analogous to ARPANET or the web? Even if you dislike crypto, is this comparison really helpful?

ARPANET knew who it was for and what it was for: for researchers to share data and compute resources that would otherwise be expensive to do across vast distances. Audience and use case. What's the equivalent for cryptocurrency?

>Building a secure, scalable, sufficiently decentralized distributed computer system is hard.

Who actually wants that, and for what practical purpose?