Topic: view: bitcoin has hit its full potential - page 6. (Read 5510 times)

While I agree with the OP that bitcoin has pretty much reached it's full potential on a technology scale,
the lag in public perception may lead to a widespread understanding of this only much later, I hope in 2017.

I couldn't agree more OP it is a failure. 

Man, your posts are getting really annoying..

Why is it that so many people can't understand that bitcoin isn't a finished product ready for mainstream yet? 

Its still just as hard to get your hands on btc as it was a year ago.  And using it hasn't changed much, you can still scan a qr code, but you can do that with other payment systems too.  Btc may protect against chargebacks, but if you send to a wrong address there is nothing you can do about it.  this is enough to scare off most people.  the first time someone lost coins by sending to a wrong address or was scammed somehow dealing with btc they are going to stop going through the hastle and give up on it.  the only thing btc now has for a hope of price increase is investor money coming in, however I think that will only cause short price spikes (like yesterday) and then they will quickly sell and make easy money.

It's as decentralised a currency can get.

It is with the use of tools.
It is and it's becoming easier to use month by month as new applications come in to help adoption.

You got everything wrong in that sentence.

if you google "21$ in bitcoin" immediately there is a exchange rate.  Just like any other currency or formula you can google.   Guess what?  The world knows about bitcoin; its capabilities has been shown.  Guess what?  The world is NOT impressed by bitcoin, and uninterested.  Bitcoin is disliked, and is not useful to 95% of the population.

I was around in 2011, and we dreamed of this day, where the world has been exposed to bitcoin.  As the saying goes "be careful what you wish for", there really isn't that much going on for bitcoin, but furthermore, the future of bitcoin.

Bitcoin is not really decentralized, anonymous, or easy to use.  Any entity that tries to improve bitcoin is not in it to really improve bitcoin, but to monopolize some kind of service that is good for bitcoin in the short run but destroys it in the long run.  Coinbase, mtgox, etc etc...

Bitcoin is centralized in the fact that it is only as good as the developers, and the developers are total stone degenerates.  Bitcoin is doomed to be something that just "didn't work" when we look back at in hindsight.  Just like another penny stock that was selling for hundreds of dollars a share during the .com bubble.  5 years from now (if this forum still exists), someone will bump this thread and facepalm at their ignorance.