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Been waiting a couple years for crypto to be a topic on HN again. People still don't get it.

I learned a new term used on HN yesterday, 'bikeshedding'. It perfectly applies to bitcoin/blockchain.

How?

How is there bikeshedding? Almost all arguments people make against bitcoin are pointless. I.e. the fees being high, transaction time being low, transactions per second, ect

Blockchain is a disruptive technology on the same level as the invention of the Internet. It is the first global, transparent, immutable ledger. We are only just beginning discovery on what we can do/improve from here.

True, people debate on these little details and none of them matter, they will be solved one way or another. It's guaranteed that cryptocurrencies are here to stay. Most people don't understand that cryptos in their current form is just the base and when more and more money start building on top of it that's when we will see the real internet 3.0 and all the amazing things you can do with it. It takes some imagination to see what's possible.

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