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Re:Bitcoin is not a Battery – it is a Sink by berkes on Sunday March 28, 2021 @01:56PM (#26612520)
How does a Somali web dev get a Visa to pay for her servers or domain registrations? How will a Syrian restaurant owner accept Mastercard payments from his custumers? How can Wikileaks accept donations?

Do you not consider those 'economic value'?

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Re:Bitcoin is not a Battery – it is a Sink by nly on Sunday March 28, 2021 @02:02PM (#26612570)
Sure it's valuable, but it's hardly significant. You're talking about tiny fractions of a % of the global economy.
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