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    Each is a technology with unique features for its time, and where there aren’t any practical applications initially.

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      For each steam power there are thousands of similar inventions that never see the light of practical use cases. We just remember those that had significant breakthroughs.

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      Still doesn’t mean crypto is like steam, nor that it will ever have any practical application

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        I’m sure the ancient Greeks said similar things about their steam pinwheels.

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          you know, the fact that they were right sort of undermines your argument, Hero’s engine really diden’t amount to anything outside a fun curio for wealthy aristocrats, modern steam engines are not based on this invention, the modern steam engine comes from early pressure-cooking