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Think about it. If you had never heard about Bitcoin before, would you care about a payments network that:
Couldn’t move your existing money
Had wildly unpredictable fees that were high and rising fast
Allowed buyers to take back payments they’d made after walking out of shops, by simply pressing a button (if you aren’t aware of this “feature” that’s because Bitcoin was only just changed to allow it)
Is suffering large backlogs and flaky payments
… which is controlled by China
… and in which the companies and people building it were in open civil war?
I’m going to hazard a guess that the answer is no

the black husserl posted:

goons have been talking poo poo about bitcoin for years but it just keeps getting more valuable and legit. please explain.

Strategic Tea posted:

So let me get this right you can have dirty fiat backed by the military and industrial might of a superpower or you can have bitcoins backed by the ability to perform completely pointless calculations?

EorayMel posted:

Pictured: very simple method of exchange.


Note the pants-less pervert central to the bitcoin transaction process

Kilmers Elbow posted:

cumshitter posted:

I'm pretty sure a South American poster named Magrov poked a few holes in the Brazil story. One of them being that the locations the writer mentions can't be easily reached since the area is one giant forest.

Edminster posted:

atlas moved to canada and became an immortal

bruce tried to get Occupy Wall Street people to shower in his apartment and then dropped off the grid for a while, but briefly resurged by trying to get everybody to use a gay hookup app in order to facilitate face-to-face bitcoin transactions