The article is correct that no altcoin has yet created a feature set that was differentiated enough to make such a claim.
Why not Namecoin?
Topic: Altcoin wars (Read 514 times)
Why not Namecoin?
Uh oh, the altcoin wars...
Although that article is correct that there can only be one dominant unit-of-account, it is not true that we don't find utility in other assets, e.g. gold, silver, stocks, options, etc..
The article is correct that no altcoin has yet created a feature set that was differentiated enough to make such a claim.
The article is also loaded with strawmen and incompletely-explored-partial-truths.
The nitty-gritty details matter.
By the way, there's a lot of confusion around zerocoin: http://themisescircle.org/blog/2013/08/22/the-problem-with-altcoins/
Although that article is correct that there can only be one dominant unit-of-account, it is not true that we don't find utility in other assets, e.g. gold, silver, stocks, options, etc..
The article is correct that no altcoin has yet created a feature set that was differentiated enough to make such a claim.
The article is also loaded with strawmen and incompletely-explored-partial-truths.
The nitty-gritty details matter.
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