Bitcoin In 2017: Fixin Ta Blow Up

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Wed Dec 28 17:59:00 PST 2016


On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 7:37 PM, Razer <g2s at riseup.net> wrote:
> Whoah! Bankers and investment vultures HEART mythical currency! Who knew?

Depends on *which* currency you mean.

Bitcoin - Yes they can make all the usual services money
off it from the stupid. But control is the other huge half of
their traditional equation, and they'll have about as much
control over p2p wallets and transactions as they have over
crypto... so far none, except for fud, threats, contempt.

TheirCoin - They'll have a hard time getting all themselves
banksters, feds, big business / retail / employers / compute / etc
to all sit down at the same table to hash it out... globally. Too
many of them will want it for themselves for that to work.
Which will make them like all the rest... bunch of failed coins
that nobody really uses or cares about. Then there's the huge
lead bitcoin and its worldwide ethos has that they'd have
to compete with.

ie: Most of these are fundamentally the same thing, tweaked
param / algo / marketing / private forks of bitcoin that failed
or have no real purpose that bitcoin doesn't or won't ever meet...
http://coinmarketcap.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cryptocurrencies

Though some are interesting for what they may solve,
are integrated with, or new purpose (again, that bitcoin
doesn't cover) ...

blockchain privacy - dash, monero, zcash / zclassic
outcomes - augur
programmable - ethereum
storage / etc - maidsafe / etc

and so on if you can link to or assemble such a useful list?


https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5kq767/if_your_government_thinks_it_is_ok_to_take_your/
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-27/bitcoin-surges-20-week-chinese-volumes-hit-record-high
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5krljj/it_looks_like_kim_dotcom_is_very_optimistic_on/


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