Comment What does "fail" mean? What does "succeed" mean? (Score 1) 537
We have no idea what Satoshi's success criteria were. so how can Bitcoin be a failure?
Perhaps the aim was for Bitcoin to be routinely used by almost everyone in the world -- in which case, yes, it'll probably fail, but that would have been an outrageous target.
Perhaps the aim was for it to become useful to a few thousand niche users -- in which case it's already a success.
Perhaps the aim was just to see what happens -- in which case it can't fail.
Bitcoin is what it is -- and it's interesting to watch.