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UPDATE: dug up this from Andreas - amazing how timeless and prescient he is (given that it is from 2015)
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might be time refer to refer the White Paper
Not an argument for why it will fail.... but certainly one possible threat that could lead to its death or irrelevance is shitty regulation - governments imposing restrictions on use, aquisition, custody (reason why understanding custody is so important) or making it a pain in the ass for merchants to accept might make it unattractive to use as payment for goods and services which in turn might lead to a reduced demand and its failure.
Although private/public keys have been around for long time, Bitcoiners have a leg up on understanding this idea of custody
Really excited that there is a communications solutions (though it was going to come ontop the LN network eg. Sphinx, but delighted to see this DeComm happen this way:)
Good point! Thanks for bringing it up:)