Yeah it's damn cool but people are just lazy and are willing to go with the past of least resistance. Wide is the path that leads to destruction

SimpleStacker

People will be OK with it until they fall out of favour or their new coin doesn't work to buy them a hamburger because it was programmed only for a soy burger.

I laid in bed just this morning thinking about how fantastic lightning infrastructure is. My node, talking to other network nodes, no intermediary, to maintain channel state. No bankers, no government, no issuer. Just purely magic internet money. What a timeline.

bitcoin

econ

When Cash Disappears, So Does Something Else

siggy47

I'm seeing this happen more and more. 

People will be OK with it until they fall out of favour or their new coin doesn't work to buy them a hamburger because it was programmed only for a soy burger. 

I laid in bed just this morning thinking about how fantastic lightning infrastructure is. My node, talking to other network nodes, no intermediary, to maintain channel state. No bankers, no government, no issuer. Just purely magic internet money. What a timeline.