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Re:Bill Gates Says that Bitcoin is bad For the Planet by groos on Monday March 08, 2021 @01:41PM (#26389719)
Re. buying/selling with BTC, one other problem is stability of value. Without stability, usability as a currency becomes hard. How does one even list items' cost in BTC when the value of BTC is constantly fluctuating?
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Re:Bill Gates Says that Bitcoin is bad For the Planet by DennisP on Monday March 08, 2021 @02:28PM (#26390362)
There are stablecoins on Ethereum that fix that problem. Some of them are derivatives backed by nothing but ETH.
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Re:Bill Gates Says that Bitcoin is bad For the Planet by tekknik on Monday March 08, 2021 @10:19PM (#26395051)
So, right back to fiat!
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Re:Bill Gates Says that Bitcoin is bad For the Planet by DennisP on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @07:31AM (#26398178)
No reason we couldn't peg those to the price of gold, a basket of commodities, or of consumer goods.
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