7) "Bitcoin can be surpassed, but the underpinning blockchain tech is revolutionary (cf. 5&6). We should research blockchain w/o Bitcoin!"
No: blockchains can be surpassed (cf. 5&6), but the underpinning bitcoin asset is revolutionary. We are researching Bitcoin w/o blockchain. โ at Milan, Lombardy
You guys know that I have a fetish for analogies, so bear w/ me about this one. Thesis: if Bitcoin is digital Gold, then the (pseudo)"SPV" model for light nodes is digital Coinage, w/ basically the same trade-offs & risks. Argument development following in this tweetstorm: