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Re:Warren Buffett: Stay Away From Bitcoin. It's A Mirage by VMG on Friday March 14, 2014 @11:51AM (#7399621)
You might want to brush up on that list of yours:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation#Examples_of_hype...

Anyways, insuring against political instability is not a bad idea

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Re:Warren Buffett: Stay Away From Bitcoin. It's A Mirage by dllthomas on Friday March 14, 2014 @12:01PM (#7399700)
"Anyways, insuring against political instability is not a bad idea"

So, because A precedes B, we're assuming B causes A?

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Re:Warren Buffett: Stay Away From Bitcoin. It's A Mirage by VMG on Friday March 14, 2014 @12:38PM (#7400005)
no reason to assume that, it is smart to insure against inflation regardless of cause
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Re:Warren Buffett: Stay Away From Bitcoin. It's A Mirage by dllthomas on Friday March 14, 2014 @12:47PM (#7400065)
But if the cause is political instability, then that looks like making sure we don't have political instability, not like making sure we have a fixed M0.
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