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Green: Exchange inefficiencies, not network effects, limit altcoin adoption
“See, actually, I don't agree with that. I think that there's room for a large number of altcoins, and I think the reason that the existing altcoins are not as popular is just because of inefficiencies in the way that exchanges work.”
Green: Autonomous software agents transacting funds will make a huge impact
“I think companies is a terrible way to explain this, but I think software agents that have these capabilities, including the ability to essentially transact funds, ah, would make a huge difference.”
Green: Bitcoin core developers rejected early, inefficient versions of Zerocoin
“So we actually, when we initially came out with zero coin, it was not very efficient. We approached Bitcoin and said, Hey, this is great. You guys should adopt it. And they kind of looked at it as funny and they said, you know, this is not efficient.”
Green: Altcoins are experimenting with supernodes for fast transaction confirmations
“So some of the altcoins, actually anonymous altcoins, have middle, semi, semi-decentralized layers, where there are the users, and then there's kind of a small number of supernodes. And an experiment that some of these altcoins are doing is trying to use those…”