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Re:Bitcoin Is More Expensive to Keep Safe Than Gold by Scea91 on Thursday November 23, 2017 @09:47AM (#15765349)
If your logic was sound, it would basically mean, by argument of induction, that anything that exists for some time will exist forever.
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Re:Bitcoin Is More Expensive to Keep Safe Than Gold by soVeryTired on Thursday November 23, 2017 @11:08AM (#15765881)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
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Re:Bitcoin Is More Expensive to Keep Safe Than Gold by bonestamp2 on Friday November 24, 2017 @02:56PM (#15772697)
I'm not suggesting it will last forever, I'm just saying it has already survived far longer than most people realize and therefore it's more resilient than people probably realize.

That said, I think saying that bitcoin will be gone in 15 years is a bit like those people who thought the internet was just a fad. People who "get it" understand its usefulness and as long as there are enough of those people then it will remain.

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Re:Bitcoin Is More Expensive to Keep Safe Than Gold by Scea91 on Friday November 24, 2017 @05:35PM (#15773391)
It depends... I have no doubts that cryptocurrency will be around in 15 years. But Bitcoin? I am not so sure.
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