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Re:Bitcoin Is for Drugs by ve55 on Friday June 16, 2017 @05:01PM (#14572614)
The idea is that if a cryptocurrency completely succeed in its goals, there would be no need to convert the BTC to begin with. They would just use it to buy food, pay rent, and so on.

Obviously cryptos are not very close to this goal, but you can imagine that it could be very convenient in this example if that was not the case.

Re:Bitcoin Is for Drugs by Paul-ish on Friday June 16, 2017 @05:51PM (#14572901)
The author of the piece argues differently. Mainly that bitcoin doesn't need to be used for everyday things, but for things that might be censored.
Re:Bitcoin Is for Drugs by hudon on Friday June 16, 2017 @06:00PM (#14572953)
Right, all governments need to do to prevent the "world currency" idea is say "no."