Bitcoin has little shot at ever being a major global currency

Re:Bitcoin has little shot at ever being a major global curr... by moccachino on Thursday January 11, 2018 @06:50AM (#16123053)

I must say I find it very hard to wrap my head around that you would say that the creation of a medicine to cure a real disease is not a work of value.

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Re:Bitcoin has little shot at ever being a major global curr... by malteof on Thursday January 11, 2018 @06:58AM (#16123087)

Not what he said though... He said it has no value for him - presumably since he doesn't have AIDS.

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Re:Bitcoin has little shot at ever being a major global curr... by mick87 on Thursday January 11, 2018 @07:13AM (#16123161)

But there is value for him as he would have quick access to medicine if he ever gets AIDS. Of course someone who as AIDS values the medicine more but saying there is no value for him seems very short sighted.

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Re:Bitcoin has little shot at ever being a major global curr... by vasilipupkin on Thursday January 11, 2018 @08:24AM (#16123603)

The point is, everyone cannot be working on creating AIDS medicine. Someone has to be working on things that, say, cheer up the person working on aids medicine when she hits a wall.

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Re:Bitcoin has little shot at ever being a major global curr... by dwild on Thursday January 11, 2018 @04:05PM (#16127843)

Sure but these all have values then. His point was to show that AIDS medicine has no value for him, but it actually does. He can't use that argument to prove that value is subjective considering that it actually does have value for everyone.

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