Quote from: HairyMaclairy on February 16, 2018, 09:52:44 PM

Quote from: Biodom on February 16, 2018, 09:46:10 PM

Quote from: romneymoney on February 16, 2018, 09:29:45 PM

Quote from: infofront on February 16, 2018, 08:45:45 PM

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Perhaps 2018 is bitcoin's 1994.

...By 1998 things had changed alot. Win 95/98 IE/Netscape made it much more useful and simple to use the internet and sites began to proliferate. I had dropped out to take a 35k job at a search engine optimization company (which seemed like alot at the time) that quickly went out of biz, but my connections from that job led to other connections that have kept me working for the 20 years since.

tldr; if it's 1994, buckle up, things will be unrecognizable in 4 years.

What would be our Netscape moment? Or AOL temporary dominance?
Is Lightning a.k.a Netscape (without the IPO) and is Coinbase/Binance/Bitfinex, perhaps, the AOL equivalent?
Or, would it be something else out of left field?

We need a third layer solution with a stable unit of account. Or a way of using Lightning but pricing everything in local currrency so it is fully automated and no one has to think in BTC or Satoshis.

I actually expect the latter to happen in one form or another. The blockchain being the backbone of the financial world, but the mainstream believing that they are still using fiat. People don't like instability and uncertainty, even if it's beneficial to them.