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by jsutton 1099 days ago
> it merely aims to be a new mechanism by which value is transferred, which by most objective measures it's very bad at doing.

What objective measures are you using? Over $3 Billion in value is transferred over the Bitcoin network every day. There has never been any downtime, nor has it ever been hacked, and fees are flat and transparent (just a few bucks to transfer unlimited value across the world).

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one objective measure: speed. another: efficiency + energy demanded to maintain