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Re:Bitcoin Miners Signal Revolt Amid Sluggish Blockchain by Dylan16807 on Monday March 13, 2017 @08:57PM (#13864051)
For most currencies, governments act as huge buyers and stabilize the value over the entire year by calculating taxes in that currency. It's not just faith in the currency itself. Bitcoin doesn't have any institutional buyers like that.

> Take Venezuela, their currency is/has collapsed because the people no longer have faith that it is valuable.

Almost all the devaluing there is because they keep making so much, not because of a lack of faith.

Re:Bitcoin Miners Signal Revolt Amid Sluggish Blockchain by mdpopescu on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @11:23AM (#13868210)
They make a lot less than the US government.
Re:Bitcoin Miners Signal Revolt Amid Sluggish Blockchain by Dylan16807 on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @02:58PM (#13870412)
Proportional to how much existed a couple years ago they have created insane amounts of new currency. US government can't touch that rate.