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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  1563 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Bitcoins Are Being Tokenized on Ethereum Faster Than They Are Mined

I have been known to describe Bitcoin as Myspace and Ethereum as Facebook.





mk  ·  1563 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'd say it's more like Bitcoin is Prodigy and Ethereum is the web. You cannot create with Bitcoin.

kleinbl00  ·  1563 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You would say that because you're the kind of nerd who rolls his own social networks in his spare time. Most people have no idea what Prodigy was. Meanwhile if you tell them Ethereum is "the Internet" they will ask how they can check their Facebook on it.

Not everyone had a Myspace account, but everyone knew someone who had a Myspace account. Not everyone did anything with Myspace, but everyone stumbled across Myspace while they were googling something unsuccessfully. There's an ubiquity and purposelessness to Myspace that is pedagogically useful in this instance.