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Re:Coinbase is launching support for the USDC stablecoin by wcoenen on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @02:27PM (#18286056)
> I think cryptocurrency becomes far more interesting when it's not trying to solve the problem of who gets money when it's printed

This was not the goal of bitcoin. The goal was to remove the need for trusted intermediaries from electronic payments. https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

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Re:Coinbase is launching support for the USDC stablecoin by hndamien on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @08:32PM (#18288707)
Thats true, but in order to make that work it actually needed to solve both problems.
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Re:Coinbase is launching support for the USDC stablecoin by gwbas1c on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @02:37PM (#18286145)
The primary goal of Bitcoin was to be an experiment.
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