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Re:Bitcoin Takes Bigger Wall Street Stage with Smooth CME Debut by jessriedel on Monday December 18, 2017 @12:15PM (#15953231)
Basically, online gambling.
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Re:Bitcoin Takes Bigger Wall Street Stage with Smooth CME Debut by wakkaflokka on Monday December 18, 2017 @12:22PM (#15953294)
Yeah, that's not the prettiest way of describing it ;)

But if it really is just online gambling, is that in and of itself enough to sustain over the long term? I don't mean the ~20k BTC price, but the ecosystem itself. After all, casinos/lottery/gambling have been around for a long, long time.

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