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A comment on Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later. Parent comment

Re:Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later by mateuszf on Sunday November 24, 2019 @03:01PM (#21622915)
> Remove the negligence item and fraud and theft are still there.

Not with cash or gold. Yet we consider them money.

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Re:Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later by arcticbull on Sunday November 24, 2019 @08:12PM (#21624714)
Nobody has considered gold money since the fall of Bretton-Woods. Gold is an asset class.

And yeah, if someone steals your cash or your gold, you can sue them and obtain a restorative court judgement. With your magic beans you just blame the victim and shrug suggesting they should have been more careful, aka "SFYL."

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