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Re:Visa Plans to Enable Bitcoin Payments at 70M Merchants by Aunche on Thursday March 18, 2021 @12:15AM (#26499627)
Tech stocks aren't stores of value either. They're investments. No matter how speculative they are, the company is expected to return its profits back to the shareholders.
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Re:Visa Plans to Enable Bitcoin Payments at 70M Merchants by epa on Thursday March 18, 2021 @01:55PM (#26505486)
Now we are just playing with semantics.
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Re:Visa Plans to Enable Bitcoin Payments at 70M Merchants by Aunche on Thursday March 18, 2021 @02:27PM (#26505840)
From an purchaser's perspective, Bitcoin may be indistinguishable from a meme stock, but behind the scenes it's entirely different. You can't store wealth in a company because the company requires wealth the operate.
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