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Re:Bitcoin breaks $3K to reach new all-time high by ric2b on Saturday August 05, 2017 @06:12PM (#14938199)
> but the fact remains that the US has done it for 225 years and Bitcoin has done it for less than 9 years.

The USD was backed by gold until Nixon, you can only count the last 40 something years against Bitcoin's 9.

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Re:Bitcoin breaks $3K to reach new all-time high by trevyn on Sunday August 06, 2017 @02:57AM (#14940125)
The USD was backed by your trust in the government to give you its gold upon demand, not an intrinsic ability to physically convert a note into gold, so nothing really changed with Nixon.

Mind blown, right? :)

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