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Re:What Bitcoin’s White Paper Got Right, Wrong and What We S... by lmohseni on Saturday October 31, 2020 @04:25PM (#24954914)
>You're also assuming that telecommunications networks, physical infrastructure, particularly power, are in good working order

the same is true of bitcoin, right? I mean gold will continue to be gold in the absence of power, but will bitcoin even exist?

The most damning critique of bitcoin is that it requires power to be free and infinite.

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Re:What Bitcoin’s White Paper Got Right, Wrong and What We S... by andrewjl on Saturday October 31, 2020 @04:33PM (#24954974)
Not necessarily if you are in possession of your own keys. Which admittedly most people today are not. A hardware wallet can be physically transported in the same way gold can.
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Re:What Bitcoin’s White Paper Got Right, Wrong and What We S... by lreeves on Saturday October 31, 2020 @04:37PM (#24955005)
The TSA will seize your phone if you don't hand over passwords and passcodes in many cases, you're saying you think it'd be a good idea to cross the US border with any amount of bitcoin on a hardware wallet? That's... optimistic.
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Re:What Bitcoin’s White Paper Got Right, Wrong and What We S... by andrewjl on Saturday October 31, 2020 @04:42PM (#24955044)
You don't need a hardware wallet if you use the mnemonic phrase feature.[1]

https://en.bitcoinwiki.org/wiki/Mnemonic_phrase

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