No-coiners are exhausting. Bitcoin triggers a deep psychological anxiety in some people and their reaction is to construct these defensive arguments in their heads about why Bitcoin is stupid, a scam, useless, etc.

If in another 10 years it continues it’s success and we have widespread point of sale usage and micropayments etc, and value is, maybe $200K/coin. Then these people might require some type of specialized psychological therapy to handle their disbelief.

On the other hand, Bitcoiners even if it crashes to zero somehow, will be saying at least we tried, oh well.

Bitcoin opinions are some type of strange personality litmus test. I find it very curious as the test result feels very unpredictable for me when applied to people I know well.

> - Bitcoin doesn't use DHTs.

I didn't say it did. But the idea of distributing data in a P2P fashion is not novel.

> - The term blockchain was coined after the Bitcoin white paper was published, to describe the mechanism used in Bitcoin.

I'm not very interested in the particular etymology. The fundamental ideas of a blockchain, regardless of what you call it, had been laid out by multiple people years before the bitcoin whitepaper[0].

> - Bitcoin was the first system to solve the double spending problem in a decentralized way.

No, it wasn't[1][2].

> The network is actively used. Just yesterday, there were 345K on chain Bitcoin transactions totaling a value of around 4 billion USD.

..Ok? That's about the level of activity I would expect between speculation, scams, and drugs, sure.

[0]https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.06130.pdf

[1]https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4268195

[2]https://arxiv.org/abs/0802.0832