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[wcoenen]

> I think cryptocurrency becomes far more interesting when it's not trying to solve the problem of who gets money when it's printed

This was not the goal of bitcoin. The goal was to remove the need for trusted intermediaries from electronic payments. https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

[hndamien → wcoenen]

Thats true, but in order to make that work it actually needed to solve both problems.

[gwbas1c → wcoenen]

The primary goal of Bitcoin was to be an experiment.