So while you might say “I remember I went to the library last Thursday,” you wouldn’t necessarily say “I reminisce about going to the library last Thursday,” unless it was a particularly special experience.
For example, reminisce and remember are synonyms, but reminisce has an additional nuanced, specific meaning of fondly remembering times far in the past. To make word choice even more challenging, there are words that sound the same, but communicate different ideas (like “affect” and “effect”), words that mean the exact same thing, but have different spellings in British English and American English (like “grey” and “gray”), and perhaps the most confusing: words that are almost identical and communicate similar yet distinct ideas (like “historic” and “historical”).Īnd then there are words that are technically interchangeable but have different connotations. There are more than 171,000 words in the English language. It’s nothing to be embarrassed about every writer struggles with word choice from time to time. It's like calling everyone else on the planet "not Chinese".When you’re writing, picking the right word can sometimes be rigid.
If you want evidence of Bitcoin's outsize influence and ego with this kind of thing, just think of the term "altcoin", which only makes sense in a world in which not being Bitcoin is a meaningful classification (it was in 2012 not so much now). And, given that it remains the biggest name and market leader, it will continue to hold major influence over the terminology used in the space. Despite the fact that it has been moving toward the store-of-value use case for years, and that things like Taproot take it even further from the generally understood function of a currency, the notion that it's still a "peer to peer electronic cash system" remains central to its own self-image. Even setting aside what the "best and most useful applications" of DLT may be, the sheer numerical reality is that out of the tens of thousands of projects out there, only a small handful are trying to be currencies.īut Bitcoin's identity crisis is a big part of why the term will persist.
And I think most people and companies think of bitcoin as an asset anyway. I think all of these use cases can be summarized by the word “cryptoassets”. Such as owning foreign stocks (Mirror), or having a trustless stablecoin (Terra), financial privacy, money laundering (which I’m not endorsing), trustless asset swaps, and innovative financial apps (Ethereum). because all of these projects currently can be used to solve difficult real world problems. I think currently the most useful projects are projects such as Mirror Protocol, Terra, privacy coins (Monero and Secret Network or any other privacy project with private smart contracts), Ethereum and etc. I really think best and most useful applications of cryptocurrencies are not as currencies. (It’s too volatile to be a currency and etc.) Whenever I ask no-coiners how they feel about cryptocurrencies, they always mention that they don’t like them because they don’t think most people would adopt them as currencies. r/CryptoCurrencyMemes r/CryptoTechnology r/CryptoMarkets r/CryptoRecruiting r/Best_of_Crypto r/BitcoinMarkets r/BitcoinMining r/CryptoTrade r/Ethfinance r/EthTrader r/Jobs4Crypto r/Liberland r/NFT r/OpenBazaar r/GPUmining Mastering Ethereum (Open Source book) Exchanges IBM's ZeroToBlockchain (Free learning resources)
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