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Re:Beyond the Bitcoin bubble by DenisM on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @03:24PM (#16162077)
But gambling is a real-world use case. There is plenty of real-world illegal activities that benefit from bitcoin, and they can all deal just fine with high transaction fees, delays, volatility, etc.
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Re:Beyond the Bitcoin bubble by jhwang5 on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @03:34PM (#16162202)
According to your logic, pretty much any illegal activity will - by definition - have real world use cases, and should be permissible.
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Re:Beyond the Bitcoin bubble by DenisM on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @03:42PM (#16162308)
No. I did not say anything about permissibility, only about utility.
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