This:
"Then there's 'cyberbusiness'. We're promised instant catalog
shopping—just point and click for great deals. We'll order airline
tickets over the network, make restaurant reservations and negotiate
sales contracts. Stores will become obsolete. So how come my local mall
does more business in an afternoon than the entire Internet handles in a
month? Even if there were a trustworthy way to send money over the
Internet—which there isn't—the network is missing a most essential
ingredient of capitalism: salespeople."
Clifford Stoll, Newsweek, Feb 26, 1995
Is what people sound like to me when they try to explain why bitcoin
won't work.
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