"laughable" — Robert Nielsen, 2015. Bitcoin prediction poster (BTC $217 at the time).
    “laughable” — Robert Nielsen, 2015. Poster by Buttcoiners.

    “The idea that desperately poor people with limited access to basic necessities will have the technology and the expertise (or need) to use bitcoin is laughable. It is delusional to believe that Bitcoin will be saved by people without access to running water. The people of the Third World have bigger concerns than a decentralised peer-to-peer electronic currency.”

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