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Re:Debate HN: Is Bitcoin a currency or a commodity? by betterunix on Thursday April 18, 2013 @10:03AM (#5570624)
So other than trade and accounting, what is Bitcoin useful for?
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Re:Debate HN: Is Bitcoin a currency or a commodity? by cjg on Thursday April 18, 2013 @10:50AM (#5570906)
"but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what have the Romans done for us?"
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Re:Debate HN: Is Bitcoin a currency or a commodity? by betterunix on Thursday April 18, 2013 @11:33AM (#5571191)
That's not the point. If Bitcoin has no uses other than trade and accounting, it is not a commodity.
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