Quote from: DooMAD on August 14, 2019, 01:05:10 PM

Quote from: Khaos77 on August 14, 2019, 01:44:56 AM

Quote from: DooMAD on August 12, 2019, 09:49:57 AM

Now explain why all the myriad altcoins which do exactly that are still a speck of dust in the wind compared to Bitcoin.

Because of the price manipulators , which price is all your simple mind can conceive.

Who said anything about price? I'm talking about utility. A currency I'm happy to receive as a payment because I have the capability to purchase tangible goods and services with it. Other coins can't match the network effects of Bitcoin, which is something you continually underestimate the importance of.

As for your other remark about non-mining nodes and security, I'm not going to waste my time repeating something to you that I've said enough times in the past (to far superior opponents, no less). Suffice to say, you are wrong. End of.

Did you go in a grocery store and pay with bitcoin, did you pay your electric bill with bitcoin,
did you pay for your cup of coffee with bitcoin.

Answer is NO, because even credit cards charge a lower fee than bitcoin current transaction fees.

Bitcoin is a buy and hold and sell (for the non-stupid.)
It has no useful utility as a payment service due to it fluctuations in price verses fiat and it fluctuations in transaction fees.
Also who had time to wait for 30 minutes for 3 confirmations at a gas station. Tongue

* Your non-mining node serves no purpose except propping up your fragile ego, that you matter, you don't. Cheesy