Why Everyone Missed the Most Mind-Blowing Feature of Cryptocurrency

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"It’s a stealth feature, one that hasn’t activated yet. But when it does it will ripple across the entire world, remaking every aspect of society."

Nothing about cryptocurrency will remake every aspect of society. That is just over the top garbage. The rest of the article is of similar low quality nonsense.

Although I agree, I think the point people are trying to make when they say that is this:

Cryptocurrency breaks down financial barriers usually erected because of geo-political relationships. Other sectors might benefit from the same kind of egalitarianism.

I don't know what the future holds, but there could be interesting applications, but probably not as world changing as people think.

> That is just over the top garbage.

Yeah, the whole article is a complete waste of a click. The fact that the author tried to pass off e-gold as anything other than a money transfer service, while ignoring that their whole purpose was to facilitate money laundering and tax evasion, is just ming boggling.

I really dislike articles that start off like this one, where every sentence has to be on a new line. Why write this way?

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