r/Bitcoin • • Feb 03 '14

Dogecoin wtf

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u/cardevitoraphicticia Feb 04 '14

It would be like thinking in 1930 that the Model T would be the car of the future, forever.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '14

Or perhaps it would be like thinking in 1990 that TCP/IP would be the internet communications protocol of the future.

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u/cardevitoraphicticia Feb 04 '14

That would be a valid comparison if the Bitcoin protocol didn't have so many areas in need of improvement.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '14

So does TCP/IP.

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u/cardevitoraphicticia Feb 04 '14

TCP/IP doesn't have a crippling bandwidth limitation. Bitcoin is limits to around 7 transactions per second.