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A comment on Basecoin: A Robust, Price-Stable Cryptocurrency with an Algorithmic Central Bank. Parent comment

Re:Basecoin: A Robust, Price-Stable Cryptocurrency with an A... by mooneater on Friday December 22, 2017 @01:38PM (#15989766)
> absurdity of bitcoin's (and other naive cryptocurrencies’) finite amount of money

Bitcoin can be seen as a middle finger to inflation, more than a basis for primary currency.

If nothing else, it certainly as helped advance the conversation on the nature of money supply.

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Re:Basecoin: A Robust, Price-Stable Cryptocurrency with an A... by qubex on Saturday December 23, 2017 @07:22AM (#15993932)
Cryptocurrencies (at least the first ones, those before BaseCoin) aren’t really currencies at all. They’re ’just’ clever decentralised ways of manufacturing scarcity in this day and age of infinitely copiable digita information.
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