But, while Segwit2x is perhaps the most widely-supported scaling agreement among companies and mining pools following years of debate, some have argued that key decisions are being made by an insular group of companies.
Younger, tech-savvy people are also more likely to play the digital currency markets and the high risk involved, Sunnarborg said. He estimates that about two-thirds of investors in cryptocurrencies are under age 40.
It's unused (and arguably not quite usable yet) as a general transaction currency; it's too uncertain to be trusted as a secure store of wealth; and it has a derived value that appears almost entirely dependent on legally dubious ICOs that can’t go on forever. Ether as a currency, I fear, is misunderstood by many, and compared to bitcoin at least, substantially more risky and overvalued.
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A few years ago, Intel came up with an interesting consensus algorithm which may find its way to cryptocurrency at some point in the future. This concept is known as Proof of Elapsed Time, which is quite interesting to keep an eye on. The goal is to properly achieve distributed consensus in an efficient manner. Whether or not any cryptocurrencies will ever incorporate this technology, remains to be seen though.
