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Re:Amazon denies report of accepting Bitcoin as payment by scoopertrooper on Monday July 26, 2021 @09:03PM (#27967450)
What's wrong the coins I got issued from the federal reserve? I can already exchange them for things offered by Amazon and a whole bunch of other places. Why would I want to exchange them for a glorified Amazon gift card?
Re:Amazon denies report of accepting Bitcoin as payment by CoolGuySteve on Monday July 26, 2021 @09:42PM (#27967663)
It's so strange reading these kinds of comments from people who've never transacted in Canadian Tire Money. Fungible scrip coupons have already been successful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Tire_money

Re:Amazon denies report of accepting Bitcoin as payment by robjan on Monday July 26, 2021 @11:04PM (#27968188)
Gift cards and gift certificates are examples of scrip coupons
Re:Amazon denies report of accepting Bitcoin as payment by pricees on Monday July 26, 2021 @09:22PM (#27967549)
I would like to have thought BezosBucks, like the Forever Stamp, would have been inflation proof.
Re:Amazon denies report of accepting Bitcoin as payment by craftinator on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @01:50AM (#27969056)
> What's wrong the coins I got issued from the federal reserve?

They are owned by someone who doesn't understand how one thing can be "good" without another thing in the same category being "bad".

Re:Amazon denies report of accepting Bitcoin as payment by phasnox on Monday July 26, 2021 @11:23PM (#27968275)
Centralized. Manipulated. Unpredictable issuance. Subject to censorship.

Among a few.

Re:Amazon denies report of accepting Bitcoin as payment by scoopertrooper on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @12:38AM (#27968682)
> Centralized. Manipulated.

There is widespread manipulation in the crypo market. The difference with crypto is that there are no regulations that even attempt to hinder it.

https://www.quora.com/Where-can-I-join-a-crypto-pump-and-dum...

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/lbzdn7/scam...

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Example-of-a-pump-and-du...

> Unpredictable issuance.

Perhaps in theory, but USD has proven to be a far less volatile store of value than Bitcoin and Etherium, which have both been through the equivalent of hyperinflation and hyperdeflation over the past decade.

> Subject to censorship.

Currency is not subject to censorship, such a thing would be impossible. Certain payment providers have refused to process payments to various individuals, but such a thing would be possible in the crypto space as well.

Re:Amazon denies report of accepting Bitcoin as payment by herbst on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @05:45AM (#27970501)
If you look at a graph from 1 2 or 3 years for USD and Some popular cryptos it gets really obvious which one loses relative value and which one doubles or tripples value every other year.

USD is a horrible value storage in the last year's if you deal outside of USD

Re:Amazon denies report of accepting Bitcoin as payment by phasnox on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @02:09AM (#27969181)
> but USD has proven to be a far less volatile store of value than Bitcoin

If by less volatile you mean gradually losing value, I mean yeah.. But is that a better store of value?

> such a thing would be possible in the crypto space as well.

Nope, that is literally impossible with Bitcoin. Hitler could open up a shop, and no one could stop him from receiving payments.