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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 urbanjunkie on Sunday June 26, 2011 @10:22AM (#2698030)
No, plenty of people do not save in BitCoin, for values of plenty and save that most people would understand.

You might more accurately have put 'a few people hold bitcoins for reasons of speculation'. This is not the same as saving.

[Disclosure - I hold no bitcoins]

PS - it's probably about time that people disclose whether or not they hold bitcoins when commenting.

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Re:I Spent A Coin (And I Liked It) — How I Bought Lunch in M... by noglorp on Sunday June 26, 2011 @06:43PM (#2699340)
Holding == saving. Sounds like you are trying to emphasize the difference between investment and speculation, instead.
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Re:I Spent A Coin (And I Liked It) — How I Bought Lunch in M... by Helianthus on Sunday June 26, 2011 @09:42PM (#2699738)
No, they are not equal, because that difference he is emphasizing is the definitions "that most people would understand."
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