Bitpay allows companies to accept crypto payments and receive it as real currency automatically.

People wonder about the long range effects of things because we can’t know them until a long time has passed. Like when the internet first became available in homes, we all had no idea that it would change society and even human psychology in the ways that it has. Do you never read about something that’s fairly new and think, “I wonder how that’s going to play out”? There’s not currently any answer as to what new information will be revealed or what new understanding will be gained over decades to come. Only time will show us that.

No, it isn’t. It was a casual statement of curiosity about the future.

There are always things we don’t know when newish discoveries go into common use that we learn over the first few decades of really widespread use.

It seems like you’re projecting a whole lot of meaning onto a casual comment when there was really not much there.

Wondering something isn’t a question. It doesn’t have an answer. I think you took my comment to mean something it didn’t mean.

I wasn’t asking anything.

But, you’re right, what I’m wondering is actually if there will turn out to be side effects that we don’t realize until these have been in use for decades.

I wonder if there will be any long-team side effects.