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Re:Bitcoin Falls Below $400 by pessimizer on Thursday April 10, 2014 @09:36PM (#7570783)
Paper currency can be used to pay taxes in a country, and settle debts with people who have to pay taxes in a country. I can issue my own currency and it will be worth something to people who want something from me.
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Re:Bitcoin Falls Below $400 by runeks on Friday April 11, 2014 @09:09AM (#7572605)
And bitcoin is the only currency that can be used to pay for storing data in the world's most secure distributed timestamp database (the Bitcoin blockchain).
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