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Re:What happens when I choose to “Suppress Ads” on Salon? by lrns_ on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @02:35AM (#16365382)
Tell that to a Venezuelan, who can provide a family with a single antminer.

It will make sense to you in 5 years.

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Re:What happens when I choose to “Suppress Ads” on Salon? by pjc50 on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @04:34AM (#16365871)
How exactly? Who is doing this? Withdrawal from exchanges into Venezuela? Who is buying bitcoins for Bolivars?

How did the family get the capital asset of an antminer in the first place? How are they paying for electricity?

How is this sustainable? Why is a random family able to compete with businesses that have real economy of scale, rather than having their margin driven to zero?

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Re:What happens when I choose to “Suppress Ads” on Salon? by lrns_ on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @01:50PM (#16369652)
https://hackernoon.com/extortion-police-raids-and-secrecy-in...

https://coin.dance/volume/localbitcoins/VEF (example of local trading)

Remittances, family abroad (easy via BTC to circumvent restrictions). Bitcoin is stable compared to a hyper inflation of +2,616%.

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Re:What happens when I choose to “Suppress Ads” on Salon? by rspeer on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @03:55AM (#16365703)
Your feel-good story about Venezuela is unrelated to what I said.
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Re:What happens when I choose to “Suppress Ads” on Salon? by lrns_ on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @02:14PM (#16369838)
Excuse me. Was more a reaction on "The only thing people are actually using Bitcoin for right now is to sell to other people for more than they bought it (or maybe to sell for less than they bought it to launder money)."
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