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by salient 4559 days ago
Messages by carrier pigeon? Sounds pretty "mobile" to me.

I think the point is Bitcoin is revolutionary in many ways than just being a digital currency. It's also P2P, and these type of technologies seem very hard to shut down by governments, after reaching critical mass. There are probably a lot of things governments could do to slow it down, but I'm not sure they could kill it.
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jowiar 4559 days ago
But the problem is that, among all the things Bitcoin is trying to be, one of them is a currency. A pseudonymous decentralized p2p payment system is a reasonable idea, but since every transaction takes place in a currency with bad fundamentals as a currency, it's not a particularly good implementation of that idea.
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foley 4559 days ago
I see the term critical mass being used a lot within the Bitcoin community. What's your opinion on what would constitute critical mass?
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