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October 06, 2015, 06:24:40 PM

the object of study is a fundamentally flawed protocol

This sounds like a sufficient subject for a journal article, if, indeed, you can support that thesis.

The flaws too are well-known, such as: lack of inflation causes hoarding, speculative overpricing, and price volatility; that and fixed mining reward leads to concentration of mining; no ways to reward relay nodes; no way to fix fees; no way to reverse fraudulent or criminal attacks; and more...

Bitcoin was a great advance towards the solution of the old problem of designing a decentralized payment system; but it is not the solution yet.  We must wait for another Satoshi or two to invent the parts that are still missing...

That sounds like a lot of opinion.  I'd like to see it formalized into a journal article, and see what the peer review looks like.  Smiley