Re:Bitcoin falls from $266
by Houshalter on Thursday April 11, 2013 @03:01AM
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There are a lot of reasons why people are skeptical of those systems. How could you not be at least a little? And I doubt the internet and life as we know it wouldn't exist if things were different, but it depends a lot what that means.
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Re:Bitcoin falls from $266
by thatthatis on Thursday April 11, 2013 @09:42AM
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There's a fascinating potential circularity in what you're saying.
If you invest in bitcoin because you don't trust governments, but bitcoin relies upon the internet, and the internet requires governments to stay up; then there's a sad potential future where a government-skeptic bitcoin investor is exactly right but because of the prerequisites for bitcoin to maintain value ends up with nothing.