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Re:Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are useless by PacifyFish on Sunday September 02, 2018 @11:36PM (#17900135)
I don’t presume to know what the original intention of bitcoin was, I’m only interested in it’s current viability as an investment. My goalposts are - and have always been - is it likely I can sell this later for a healthy profit?

Sounds like you’ve got a bone to pick with some ideology I’m not privy to.

And to your point - bitcoin doesn’t need to solve a crisis to be useful! It just needs to be useful to be useful.

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Re:Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are useless by bb88 on Monday September 03, 2018 @01:39AM (#17900560)
> I don’t presume to know what the original intention of bitcoin was, I’m only interested in it’s current viability as an investment.

Typically the people who shill bitcoin the hardest are the ones with an active stake in it. If this were the stock market, it would be a pump and dump.

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