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>>106991
>Microsofts internet protocol is going to be the one to succeed, they don't throw money away
>HTTP, what a joke, bunch of stinky neckbeards wasting electricity programming on some archaic protocol
>Prodigy will smoke them all, chatrooms are the future and HTTP neckbeards will never figure that type of shit out

2 Years Later

>Oh man, I TOLD you HTTP was the shit!
>yeah, no licensing fees, no strings attached, total freedom
>Ch'yah brah, like, who would have ever though anybody would go with any on large company over another when WE can have control of the entire protocol, free for everybody to use and modify

Google's coin will surely have the flexibility to outrun Bitcoin in the most rapidly morphing and unpredictable industry that mankind has ever witnessed. Surely a huge congolomerate will be able to stomp out all the tiny ants biting at it's feet, or maybe not. OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! BURN HEAL TIME@

Seriously though, there are some things that just have to be free and open and infinitely flexible with no single group controlling it, and protocols for the internet are one of them.