Comment Re: please /. stop advertising blockchain-as-curr (Score 1) 181
The comparison was the currency itself.
Even if today's orange is closer to 1982's orange than comparable Apples -- it's still roughly an orange and an Apple. If you stuffed $2,500 into a mattress in 1984 instead of buying an Apple, waited 40 years, pulled it out and went to the Apple store, it would still buy you an average Apple. You'd be a bit worse off in oranges, since they would be pretty much the same oranges, and fewer of them, but not catastrophically.
With Bitcoin, and its reverse-Argentinian levels of speculation, a pizza party today comes at the potential opportunity cost of a Porsche in ten years... or very possibly the reverse. Tempting gamble for some, surely, maybe even a profitable investment of debatable wisdom, but unquestionably a terrible currency.