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A failed experiment to me would be one that wasn't able to run its full course, or from which no information can be gleaned. Bitcoin has run for a long time, we have gleaned a ton of useful information - as far as experiments are concerned this seems like it went bigger and better than expected, so it should be a very GOOD experiment!

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Rather than questioning if the experiment failed, perhaps we should question if recent participants considered it an experiment in the first place.

I.e., I don't think most bitcoin miners / companies / investors saw this as a knowledge-gathering exercise.

I think it's really unfair to call Bitcoin "failed". It has unarguably changed the world. There was way too much hype about it changing everything.

> It has unarguably changed the world.

How so? I see nothing in my day-to-day life that's different because of Bitcoin.

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