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Re:MtGox.com is offline by BlackDeath3 on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @04:09PM (#7300525)
Getting rid of something is not necessarily the same thing as proposing an alternative that may provide new benefits.
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Re:MtGox.com is offline by mpyne on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @04:20PM (#7300598)
Unregulated currency is only new to those who refused to stay awake in their history and humanities classes though.

Unregulated currency by cryptography is novel, but doesn't create an inherently new concept any more than digital cryptography did not innovate encipherment or authenticity checking.

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