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A comment on Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency: Privacy and stability concerns. Parent comment

Re:Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency: Privacy and stability co... by easymodex on Monday June 17, 2019 @02:31PM (#20205990)
Yeah but they are not functionally identical as Bitcoin's value comes from it being immutable, decentralized and failure-proof.

Also a better analogy would be that you can make 1000 copies of the Mona Lisa in whatever way you want, they will still be just copies and they will be worthless.

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Re:Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency: Privacy and stability co... by ForHackernews on Monday June 17, 2019 @03:09PM (#20206321)
Bitcoin is just a shitcoin that happens to be popular right now. All the other altcoins make the same "immutable, decentralized and failure-proof" claims.
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Re:Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency: Privacy and stability co... by easymodex on Monday June 17, 2019 @03:19PM (#20206393)
Bitcoin is the only one with a track record to prove it.
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