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Re:Bitcoin and positive vs. normative economics by jellicle on Saturday December 28, 2013 @06:04PM (#6977063)
Nearly 100% of the attractiveness of bitcoin is the promise of infinite rewards to the early investors in the Ponzi scheme.

Bitcoin couldn't and wouldn't exist at all without that promise. So a simple system based on allocating 100 coins to everyone just wouldn't do at all.

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Re:Bitcoin and positive vs. normative economics by james1071 on Saturday December 28, 2013 @08:48PM (#6977779)
Yes-it's a marketing trick.
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Re:Bitcoin and positive vs. normative economics by SectioAurea on Saturday December 28, 2013 @11:02PM (#6978302)
Flowers trading food for pollination.
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