If Bitcoin was p2p, it would means transactions would require that both parties were online and active at the time of the transfer. That's not great. And it doesn't matter because the blockchain keeps churning 24x7 regardless of who's online. Wall Street "controlling" Bitcoin has nothing to do with whether it's a p2p network or not. These terms are being misused.

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This is the way

The way to ruin, maybe. I just imagine a bunch of misguided idealists who don't really understand the ramifications of what they're talking about sinking their bitcoin fortune into some anon p2p nonsense and looking sad and broken when it fizzles out and loses all its value when nobody uses it and the anon devs disappear (after cashing out).

And p2p is most definitely not the future because it's not scalable. The idea of a p2p digital currency that takes over bitcoin and becomes the currency of the future is utter nonsense that doesn't actually consider what p2p means in the context of a global, digital currency.

Are you smoking crack? Bitcoin is p2p and does not require you to be online at the same time as whoever's wallet address you're sending sats to

It's not p2p. Transactions are between you and the blockchain. P2P is a network type in which everything happens between two parties. And both parties have to be online at the same time for it to work. Bitcoin and other blockchain currencies don't fit the definition.

Idk where you're getting your idea of what p2p means but I would file it under the category of crack smoke

Are torrents not P2P because a third person can download a torrent from a second person after the first person has stopped seeding?

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lol morons have arrived

lol this is what it has come to ladies and gentlemen morons educating us

Totally agree! Bitcoin's power comes from the blockchain working around the clock. It’s all about decentralization and giving control back to the people, no matter who’s online! 🚀💪