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Re:My professional opinion as a blockchain researcher: I don... by slivym on Monday February 12, 2018 @10:42AM (#16359303)
Not to mention that since people aren't actually conducting business exclusively in bitcoin they are forced to transfer back to fiat currency constantly which is a transaction that has all the same risks.
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Re:My professional opinion as a blockchain researcher: I don... by sparkie on Thursday February 15, 2018 @07:26AM (#16383479)
It's possible to exchange between cryptocurrencies without trust by utilizing time-bound multi-signature transactions. You can't do that when there's a non-cryptocurrency involved.

The fact that the latter is riskier says a lot more about non-cryptocurrencies than it does about cryptocurrencies.

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