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The Bitcoiners were wrong: a blog post about privacy and bitcoin, and how they failed to design a cash alternative (unfathom.ing)

submitted 6 months ago by UnHidden@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Bitcoin was both a massive failure and success - a failure because it ended up not accomplishing its biggest goal of being a bank killer, but a success because it demonstrated not only the demand but that such a system wasn't a complete moonshot.

/circlejerk

XMR 2 da moon!!!!