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Re:Robinhood Crypto – Invest in Bitcoin and other cryptocurr... by Alex3917 on Thursday January 25, 2018 @12:40PM (#16232729)
Bitcoin is backed by an asset with a tangible value that may or may not increase over time. What exactly is Blackjack backed by?
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Re:Robinhood Crypto – Invest in Bitcoin and other cryptocurr... by briatx on Thursday January 25, 2018 @12:55PM (#16232877)
Bitcoin isn't backed by an asset. It's not really backed by anything other than people's expectation that it is worth something now (and it will be worth more in the future).

This is true even for the miners, since they would not build out infrastructure and burn energy if bitcoin was worth zero.

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Re:Robinhood Crypto – Invest in Bitcoin and other cryptocurr... by ram_rar on Thursday January 25, 2018 @05:47PM (#16235463)
So is Gold!
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Re:Robinhood Crypto – Invest in Bitcoin and other cryptocurr... by Alex3917 on Thursday January 25, 2018 @01:36PM (#16233268)
> Bitcoin isn't backed by an asset.

It's backed by hash rate, which secures the blockchain.

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