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Re:Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index by IgorPartola on Saturday August 26, 2017 @07:09PM (#15107974)
You can't buy a pizza with gold. You can with cash. BTC is trying to do both, and is failing as a store of value right now due to volatility though that may change.
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Re:Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index by colordrops on Saturday August 26, 2017 @07:27PM (#15108035)
It's neither cash nor gold, but shares more properties with gold. And it certainly is not failing as a store of value, with a steady increase in value over an appropriate time window.

Btw, you can buy pizza with gold, I guarantee someone will take your gold for pizza.

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Re:Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index by Tomte on Sunday August 27, 2017 @03:09AM (#15109557)
I'm pretty confident that you will find more pizza places that would be willing to sell for gold than for bitcoin.

War economy also functions on gold.

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