Quote from: hdbuck on June 28, 2015, 05:55:55 PM

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Quote from: JorgeStolfi on June 28, 2015, 05:50:09 PM

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Quote from: JorgeStolfi on June 28, 2015, 05:41:24 PM

To fix those flaws and allow it to achieve its stated goal, we need a few more ingenious inventions; which we cannot guess when oor whether they will be made.

What is Bitcoin's stated goal Jorge?

It is written right at the beginning of Satoshi's paper, as clearly as it could be.

Quote from: Bitcoin.pdf

A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online
payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a
financial institution.

And which flaws are preventing it from achieving this stated goal?

coinbase, bitpay et al. being the new financial institutions? ^^

You will always have the coinbases and bitpays of the world. Lamen people need to be spoon fed and things made easy. In software engineering terms its called user-friendliness. Otherwise there would never be a major adoption of anything.