[scintill76]

Well, in a few ways bitcoin is to money what email is to messges: they allow moving those activities on to the internet in a decentralized way with no (technical) barriers to entry.

I suppose the decentralization comes with efficiency and simplicity costs in both cases. Maybe they are worth it if your values align with it.

Maybe entrepreneurial HN'ers would tend to not like decentralized systems, because there's less control and profitability.