Interesting that in most comments on this thread (AVC thread) no one talks about the possibility of a financial crisis that drives masses into bitcoin as a safe haven!
Everyone is looking for a killer app for bitcoin, and i often see this possibility as largely ignored - by a lot of technical discussions, or not brought up often.
I guess maybe it is because discussing technical aspects of the Bitcoin blockchain vs other blockchains is based on facts, known with little room for intuition or forecasts. Therefore, technical experts (programming, tech etc) can succinctly discuss the pros and cons of Bitcoin blockchain vs Bank chain.
But, discussing the possibility of a financial crisis that leads to adption of a censorship proof asset is more like throwing darts, because no one really knows the future and most forecasts are probabilities rather than cold hard truths.
What they forget, or is forgotten in these discussions/comments is that there are a lot of smart people on bitcointalk thread looking at the global economy and whether or not it is getting closer to a decisive point ie loss of trust in fiat currency, cashless agenda, overpriced stock markets etc - and they, see this as imminent.
maybe not pinned down to an exact date, but inevitable at some point.
What we need (speculators) is a strong, robust, scalable Bitcoin blockchain netowrk. I believe the rest will follow (loss of trust in Fiat)and at that time, a lot of people will look at bitcoin and want to get in ie buy some.
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