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Re:Bitcoin backlash as ‘miners’ stress power grids in Centra... by hyperbovine on Sunday May 27, 2018 @01:15PM (#17167905)
A lot of money? As in actual, hard currency? Color me skeptical.
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Re:Bitcoin backlash as ‘miners’ stress power grids in Centra... by bdcravens on Sunday May 27, 2018 @01:43PM (#17168078)
Don't really understand where your question is coming from. Are you implying that exchanges aren't real? That people never cash out?

Even so, how much wealth in this world is based in "actual, hard currency"? How many developers have unvested options? How much of Musk's wealth is in the bank as opposed to tied up in his businesses? I think you're trying to stand up a strawman.

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Re:Bitcoin backlash as ‘miners’ stress power grids in Centra... by Gargoyle on Sunday May 27, 2018 @02:26PM (#17168288)
>A lot of money? As in actual, hard currency?

Yes. Definitely.

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