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Re:How the Bitcoins Were Stolen from Mt. Gox [video] by mrb on Monday September 18, 2017 @01:23AM (#15273576)
«when it achieves its true value of 0»

People who say that are people who don't understand fiat money's ONLY purpose is to track who owes what. It's debt-based. If Alice pays 1 unit of currency to Bob is because Bob gave her a product or service worth 1 unit of currency. Bitcoin is great at tracking "debt": universal, electronic, decentralized, robust, inflation-proof.

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Re:How the Bitcoins Were Stolen from Mt. Gox [video] by ilikerashers on Monday September 18, 2017 @07:28AM (#15274911)
The "true value of 0" reflects the huge confidence of legacy providers (Patrick/Stripe) that crypto will sink. They may well be correct but for a community of "Entrepeneurs", it's entertaining to see the same patterns of technology disruption applying to the so called distruptors.
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