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Re:The Pirate Bay Token by lettergram on Saturday January 08, 2022 @04:48PM (#29856679)
Same reason Bitcoin isn’t a threat to the US government. You can’t store shells in a bank, you can’t pay your taxes in sand, etc.

I do think in our lifetimes we will see the US dollar cease or transform (such as the transition from gold backed to nothing backed). Maybe it’ll be Bitcoin backed hahaha

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Re:The Pirate Bay Token by 0x0nyandesu on Saturday January 08, 2022 @04:52PM (#29856723)
Shells do have actual value. In Hawaii all the good ones have been taken from near the shore by now. It's typical to find some pristine ones only a few inches in diameter being sold for thousands.

Anything can have value.

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