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Re:Bitcoin Drops Below $8,000 as Cryptocurrency Pain Continues by xya3453 on Friday February 02, 2018 @09:17AM (#16290628)
While facilitating buying goods and services is a positive, the largest benefit to global welfare is in the invention of the blockchain.
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Re:Bitcoin Drops Below $8,000 as Cryptocurrency Pain Continues by cousin_it on Friday February 02, 2018 @10:27AM (#16291221)
That's not a consumer benefit in itself, but rather a cause of (1)-(3) and other possible effects in the future. It might well be negative in the end.
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