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Re:Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later by lalaland1125 on Sunday November 24, 2019 @01:19AM (#21618754)
There is an even bigger problem:

-a lack of reason to use cryptocurrencies when centralized alternatives perform much better for non-illegal usecases

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Re:Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later by dorgo on Sunday November 24, 2019 @10:46AM (#21621034)
Centralized alternatives work perfectly well until they fail (corruption, mismanagement, war, police state .. ). And when this happens there will be decentralized alternatives ready.
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Re:Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later by donbindner on Sunday November 24, 2019 @03:53PM (#21623313)
Even bigger than that is the treatment of dollar-denominated "value" of crypto as a capital gain. Tax adherence trumps volatility by far.
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