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Re:Coinbase says buying and selling temporarily disabled ami... by mr_spothawk on Friday December 22, 2017 @12:48PM (#15989365)
Meanwhile, the libertarians in the crowd are nodding, having expected this... and protected themselves from the fallout ahead of time.
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Re:Coinbase says buying and selling temporarily disabled ami... by ineedasername on Friday December 22, 2017 @01:21PM (#15989635)
Could be most did in terms of not having their coins in an exchange, but their coins, wherever they are, just lost value for everyone looking to spend a bit of their money today. Off-exchange storage prevents against exchange-based theft, but not overall loss of value. If that loss of value stems from fraud on a single exchange it still impacts the libertarian crowd.
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Re:Coinbase says buying and selling temporarily disabled ami... by whytaka on Friday December 22, 2017 @01:11PM (#15989554)
No true Scotsmen.
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Re:Coinbase says buying and selling temporarily disabled ami... by ineedasername on Friday December 22, 2017 @01:22PM (#15989644)
The only true Scotsmen are the ones who agree with me :)
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Re:Coinbase says buying and selling temporarily disabled ami... by em3rgent0rdr on Friday December 22, 2017 @06:26PM (#15991749)
Exactly. And not just libertarians, but any bitcoiner who understood that a prime motivation behind bitcoin was not having to rely on centralized financial entities!
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