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Why is it illegal? How would you invest in them if it were legal?

but then this just shows him in good light, no?

I messaged the CEO on LinkedIn to indicate interest in funding them. No response :(. A "No, thank you. We have bigger fish raise from" would've been nice.

They're all going away after cross-chain atomic swaps become THE thing.

Multi-sig is the cure :)

Not true. Mining at later stages will provide miners with transaction fees which will be significantly high enough for them to focus on keeping the network secure rather trying to find colliding keys

> inability to win market share from established players in Russia, India or Malaysia

Any concrete data on this other than for news articles?

Professor

I wish all the articles had an unbiased TLDR attached to it.

I came here for the clickbait, not the story!!

Uber had a CFO? That's news to me

From what I've noticed, when people refer to 'the' blockchain, they usually mean the Bitcoin blockchain.

+1 for the effort, but no.

because that is where the customers are

HN is not as mainstream as Twitter or Reddit, so I don't think we can really compare it that way

"The idea these days is, get a bunch of users and introduce ads."

That's exactly what Google and Facebook did.

All I can take from your comment is "if hypothetical scenario then my opinion is true"

bad idea, that's like validating the debt buying industry

Is the writer trolling or what?

Bitcoin would be useless if that were possible.

So much for Coin

new flavor? did you just hint at Bitcoin