There is nothing about bitcoin's design that suggests it would be good for any of the multitude of use cases that other coins claim they will be able to do, and no coin other than bitcoin has delivered any differentiating capabilities or features which bitcoin does not have. Yet they all have a freely trading currency which is somehow essential for their complex system for performing some online applications. But the notion that new web apps require their own decentralized currency is the desperately naïve hope that somehow unsolving the problem of lack of coincidence of wants could be
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