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Re:Bitcoin Surges Past $7,000 to Extend Record Rally by mrb on Thursday November 02, 2017 @12:23PM (#15611807)
By your definition, this still leaves FX trading as a "pyramid scheme". Trading fiat for fiat doesn't "put up capital to create something".
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Re:Bitcoin Surges Past $7,000 to Extend Record Rally by matthewmarkus on Thursday November 02, 2017 @12:56PM (#15612112)
In FX trading people are putting up capital to create exchange ratios, which is information. Right now people are putting up capital to determine how much coin issued by a central bank with a "deflationary" bias written in code and run and administered by a collective (i.e., Bitcoin) is worth vis-à-vis USD. Something is most definitely being created.
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Re:Bitcoin Surges Past $7,000 to Extend Record Rally by mrb on Thursday November 02, 2017 @07:38PM (#15615382)
You seem to be arguing that trading fiat↔fiat is comparable to trading fiat↔BTC. In which case I agree. That's the point I was making.
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