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Re:GameStop, Bitcoin and the Commoditization of Populist Rage by cma on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @07:29PM (#26244978)
Couldn't you do that with gold or even earlier, seashells?
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Re:GameStop, Bitcoin and the Commoditization of Populist Rage by solveit on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @07:43PM (#26245120)
You can't send gold over the Internet. The question isn't whether Bitcoin lets you do things that couldn't be done before, it's whether those things are valuable.
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Re:GameStop, Bitcoin and the Commoditization of Populist Rage by cma on Thursday February 25, 2021 @12:12AM (#26259934)
"For the first time any person can own a financial asset completely decoupled from any government."
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Re:GameStop, Bitcoin and the Commoditization of Populist Rage by nightski on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @07:44PM (#26245126)
Not advocating Bitcoin but it's a lot easier to have your gold or seashells stolen than Bitcoin.
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Re:GameStop, Bitcoin and the Commoditization of Populist Rage by lmm on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @08:01PM (#26245268)
I'm not sure that's actually true, given how common software security vulnerabilities are.
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