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Re:Bitcoin makes journalists say stupid things by kiba on Friday April 05, 2013 @03:25PM (#5500477)
As far as I am aware there isn't any real debt owed in Bitcoin.

People absolutely do loan each other bitcoin with high interest rate. Unless you meant something different for "real debt".

Re:Bitcoin makes journalists say stupid things by slg on Friday April 05, 2013 @04:58PM (#5501001)
That is what I meant and like I said I wasn't aware of any. A quick Google search for "Bitcoin debt" mostly yields people expounding on the virtues of a "debt-free" currency. The existence of debt would complicate my example as popular opinion on monetary policy would differ. Debtors would prefer inflation while creditors and general currency holders would prefer deflation. Either way, I still don't think something like monetary policy should be left up to crowd sourcing.