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Re:A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency by woah on Monday February 18, 2019 @01:41PM (#19193021)
That wasn't the original use case for crypto. In the bitcoin white paper he mostly talks about micropayments, which bitcoin has ironically failed at.
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Re:A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency by Qasaur on Monday February 18, 2019 @06:22PM (#19195403)
This is wrong. Satoshi Nakamoto was incredibly well-read in the Austrian school and mentions central bank controlled credit bubbles in his whitepaper as well as in many of his online posts on forums. The genesis block is even dedicated to this goal:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Genesis_block

"The coinbase parameter (seen above in hex) contains, along with the normal data, the following text:

    The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks"
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Re:A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency by tim333 on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @08:31AM (#19198795)
I don't see any mention of credit bubbles in https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
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Re:A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency by SkyMarshal on Monday February 18, 2019 @01:57PM (#19193202)
He covered his bases and talked about everything, but micropayments don’t need expensive decentralization to implement. Incorruptible digital money does.
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