Bitcoin is failing (to scale to ubiquity) because it is not decentralized.
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Sorry but imo Monero is a joke pretending to be serious.
Wealth preservation is the art of allocating between the least-shitty alternatives.If AnonyMint appreciated that fact instead of being such a defeatist Negative Nancy all the time, he might have been able to get some $10 BTC back when you told him to, instead of bumbling from crisis to crisis.

In other altcoin news, XCN is enjoying a healthy rally. The rebranding opportunity and this
I will release pool XCN AMD miner (for Windows x64) in 1-2 days, I've almost finished it.
may be helping.