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Re:Did Bitcoin just prove it can't scale? by xorcist on Saturday December 09, 2017 @02:28PM (#15887558)
That doesn't matter if you only use it for transactions. Step in, transact, step out.
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Re:Did Bitcoin just prove it can't scale? by TheCoelacanth on Saturday December 09, 2017 @03:09PM (#15887806)
Who is going to pay you for your Dogecoin if no one wants to hold them?
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Re:Did Bitcoin just prove it can't scale? by xorcist on Saturday December 09, 2017 @03:11PM (#15887821)
This is indeed the folly of only valuating a coin for its transactional properties.
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Re:Did Bitcoin just prove it can't scale? by ethftw on Saturday December 09, 2017 @10:23PM (#15889682)
Who's going to work for USD if no one wants to hold them?
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Re:Did Bitcoin just prove it can't scale? by TheCoelacanth on Sunday December 10, 2017 @01:32PM (#15892718)
No one, but that's an irrelevant hypothetical because people do want to hold them and that's unlikely to change. Even if people in the US did want to get paid in a different currency, they would still need some USD to pay their tax bill.
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Re:Did Bitcoin just prove it can't scale? by t3soro on Sunday December 10, 2017 @07:31PM (#15894365)
United States persons with tax or debt obligations, obviously.
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