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A comment on I Spent A Coin (And I Liked It) — How I Bought Lunch in Manhattan with Bitcoins. Parent comment

Re:I Spent A Coin (And I Liked It) — How I Bought Lunch in M... by niklas_a on Sunday June 26, 2011 @07:09AM (#2697814)
Don't know why this is getting upvoted as it contains a bunch of factual errors.

It's definitely being used as a currency already, as the article proves.

It's a highly fluctuating currency, but that doesn't remove it's properties as a currency.

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Re:I Spent A Coin (And I Liked It) — How I Bought Lunch in M... by zppx on Sunday June 26, 2011 @10:08AM (#2698017)
Care to explain the errors?

People tends to vote on divisive issues in whichever post they agree.

Although not perfect and not entering in details, maybe because of generalization, I found his explanation resonating with what I know about monetary history, but I'm not a monetary economist.

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