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Article #620248Re: Bitcoin confusion?
From: Scott Lurndal
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2018 16:19
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2018 16:19
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jmfbahciv <See....@aol.com> writes: >Peter Flass wrote: >> Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote: >>> On 2018-02-05, John Levine <jo...@taugh.com> wrote: >>>> In article <fdrhe4...@mid.individual.net>, >>>> Huge <use...@huge.org.uk> wrote: >>>>>> It's not backed by anything. >>>>> >>>>> Neither are any other currencies, other than the word of the State. Good >>>>> luck with that. >>>> >>>> I'm looking at what I can buy what dollars and what I can buy with >>>> bitcoins. I think I know which are more useful in real life. >>> >>> Quite so, but that isn't what you said. >>> >>> >> >> Bitcoins are wonderful for anyone engaged in illegal business, p@rn, arms >> trading, drugs, human trafficing, etc. For other stuff I'll stick to $. >> >But there's no way to cash it in unless one can find someone who is willing Barter has been operational for several millenia. One need not trade BTC for $$. >to buy the bitcoins for government-backed currency. It's almost like a >pyramid scheme. > >/BAH
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