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Re:Bitcoin Halving Just Occured by fidelramos on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @04:44AM (#23151819)
> I'm really curious for the hoarders, if they're doing it as a hedge against global financial collapse, how exactly do they expect to redeem their bitcoin for anything tangible?

You can sell and buy in OpenBazaar [1] or Purse.io [2] for example. In my opinion growing the native cryptocurrency economy and decoupling it from fiat currencies is the most important step to take for their adoption.

[1] https://openbazaar.com/

[2] https://purse.io/

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Re:Bitcoin Halving Just Occured by sparkie on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @05:09AM (#23151976)
purse.io is closing shop. Amazon has made it impractical for the service to continue running.
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Re:Bitcoin Halving Just Occured by fidelramos on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @05:50AM (#23152220)
It's still not clear they will close shop, see their update: https://support.purse.io/en/articles/3851246-purse-is-saying...

In any case, there is a number of ways to spend cryptocurrencies without having to go through exchanging them into fiat, which was the point I wanted to make to OP.

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