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Bitcoin has problems. Its a known fact. But apparently everything in this weird crypto world is about trade offs.

Every time you hear someone saying Nano is better than bitcoin because transactions are free the same person never mentions the problem with spam in their network.

Everyone who advocates for Ethereum for being a more complex and Turing complete network never mentions that the same complexities invite bugs and vulnerabilities and the chain was actually hacked once. Or that the developer can decide to literally rewind the chain again. Or that the PoS model is a centralizing force that is trying to replicate the current financial system.

Just check the number of people mentioning bitcoin fees without ever touching on the subject of current ETH gas cost.

Everyone advocating for Monero for its better privacy never mentions the challenges of auditing the monetary policies of their chain.

Everything is a trade off but for some reason people are very good at pointing the good parts of their solutions without never disclosing what was lost to achieve that feature and at the same time they are very good to point flaws in the Bitcoin protocol and network.




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