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A comment on BadEconomics: Putting $400M of Bitcoin on your company balance sheet. Parent comment

Re:BadEconomics: Putting $400M of Bitcoin on your company ba... by logifail on Monday January 04, 2021 @11:41AM (#25633750)
> It is sorta like money (or can easily be converted to "real" money), an asset, store of value, protocol, and secure network all at once

Apart from "protocol" and "secure network" ... this sounds almost how one might have described owning a tulip bulb in the year 1636 :)

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Re:BadEconomics: Putting $400M of Bitcoin on your company ba... by ForHackernews on Monday January 04, 2021 @12:06PM (#25634252)
Are you kidding? Tulip bulbs make an outstanding protocol: they are self-propagating and they come in 10+ different colors, making them more information-dense than a conventional binary protocol.
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