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Re:Bitcoin Is More Expensive to Keep Safe Than Gold by CydeWeys on Friday November 24, 2017 @12:45PM (#15772003)
> The current main advantage(s) of gold over bitcoin is it's still a lot easier for the average person worldwide to acquire and sell it

I don't think this is true at all? All I have to do to acquire Bitcoin is sign up for an account at an exchange, link my bank account, and then hit the buy button. It's exactly as easy to acquire as stocks.

Contrast with physical gold, which I wouldn't know where to acquire.

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Re:Bitcoin Is More Expensive to Keep Safe Than Gold by ben_w on Friday November 24, 2017 @07:44PM (#15773804)
In the third world, quite a lot of people don’t have a bank account, or at least not a conventional one as we would understand them. A common alternative is M-Pesa, which is phone based, and I don’t mean smartphone: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pesa
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Re:Bitcoin Is More Expensive to Keep Safe Than Gold by fullshark on Friday November 24, 2017 @12:56PM (#15772060)
It's very true for most people, especially in the third world. And you can do exactly what you described for e-gold as well.
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