Article up on The Coin Front today:
http://thecoinfront.com/iculture-marketing-the-individual-to-the-masses/Chris Bates on August 17, 2014
"As cryptocurrency becomes accepted by more retailers weekly, the infrastructure for mass adoption of digital currency has steadily grown. In addition to more merchant acceptance, the percentage of Bitcoin users who use their currency for actual purchases instead of holding it as a long term investment has steadily increased.
There are many debates as to why mass adoption hasn’t happened as quickly as anticipated, but some of the main debates address the diluting of resources due to the alternative currency market. In other words, there are too many altcoins, and too many people focusing on the adoption of this or that coin instead of Bitcoin.
The other side of that debate is that unifying all resources behind one digital currency is completely contrary to the main tenet of “decentralization”.
While the market continues to play out, and multiple alternative currencies are released daily, it has become clear that a sort of “crypto-fatigue” has emerged among Bitcoin enthusiasts. The struggle to find the balance between competition and cooperation has become the major wedge issue between entrepreneurs looking to capitalize off digital currency and what are known as “digital-currency evangelists” who look to spread knowledge to make mass adoption easier while not specifically seeking to capitalize from sharing knowledge."
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