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Re:The Can’t-Lose Way for Your Business to Pop: Add Bitcoin ... by down on Friday December 22, 2017 @01:24AM (#15985639)
If you look longer term the 1999 is just a small blip, so what if bitcoin crashes, bitcoin will replace banks, which are crocked and make money out of nothing.
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Re:The Can’t-Lose Way for Your Business to Pop: Add Bitcoin ... by eru on Friday December 22, 2017 @03:52AM (#15986134)
To make a prediction: bitcoin will only be successful as a currency, if we get fractional reserve bitcoins and other forms of book / paper bitcoins.

The futures market is one step in that direction. The balances held at exchanges are another one. See https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/136283.Less_Than_Zero for a historic comparison.

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