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Re:Selling Bitcoins in Cana­da by hanklazard on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @05:36PM (#15974525)
Fair enough, maybe it’s not the best label. My purpose was just to discriminate between the cryptocurrencies that are trying to solve some other problem (create a worldwide supercomputer, decentralized storage, etc) from those that are more straightforward.

I certainly don’t think of any of it as a store-of-value ... more like a trip to the casino!

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Re:Selling Bitcoins in Cana­da by 659087 on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @06:49PM (#15975017)
I wasn't really aiming that at you so much as at the constantly changing story about Bitcoin's purpose coming from the Bitcoin community as a whole.
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Re:Selling Bitcoins in Cana­da by kindfellow92 on Thursday December 21, 2017 @03:02AM (#15977229)
Bitcoin is new technology, the fact that its use cases are changing is evidence of that. That should be exciting, not disheartening. It would be a worse sign if it simply accomplished the goal it purportedly was intended for and nothing else. This shows it may have more growth potential.

I for one know a few folks who have used bitcoin to transfer large sums of money across borders... pretty crazy times we live in. I expect bitcoin to dominate in this area in the short to medium term.

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