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Re:China says it wants to eliminate Bitcoin mining by Fnoord on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @06:16AM (#19623272)
Excluding the use cases of tax avoidance and illegal utilities how is it more useful than EUR? They're all more volatile / less stable than EUR.
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Re:China says it wants to eliminate Bitcoin mining by clarky07 on Saturday April 20, 2019 @12:28AM (#19704803)
You can’t generally send EUR anywhere in the world for free in seconds. You can’t pay for things in EUR with 0 fees. There are some crypto’s that can do all of those things.
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