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Re:Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are useless by gaius on Sunday September 02, 2018 @05:25PM (#17898751)
I bet there's going to be a lot more uses within 5 years.

99.99% of people will get a backup bank card before they get into bitcoin.

Re:Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are useless by asenna on Sunday September 02, 2018 @05:31PM (#17898784)
Yeah definitely at the moment I'm not saying people would get into crypto because of such benefits. We're definitely very early adopters. I could do this because I was already investing and had BTC in my Coinbase account.

I'm just predicting at some point, more and more services will start popping up and this argument of "Is Bitcoin useful" will become less relevant.

Re:Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are useless by Angostura on Sunday September 02, 2018 @05:43PM (#17898842)
Or just use GooglePay/ApplePay
Re:Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are useless by slededit on Sunday September 02, 2018 @05:29PM (#17898775)
That's 760,000 people. I think BTC already has higher market penetration.
Re:Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are useless by village-idiot on Sunday September 02, 2018 @06:06PM (#17898938)
For speculation? Probably. For use as a regular means of transacting? I'd be surprised.
Re:Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are useless by slededit on Monday September 03, 2018 @01:06AM (#17900453)
Speculate and you get the backup account for free.
Re:Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are useless by village-idiot on Monday September 03, 2018 @01:53PM (#17903945)
Or you lose all your money because speculation is quite risky.
Re:Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are useless by enterx on Sunday September 02, 2018 @06:58PM (#17899158)