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Tokamak
Dec 22, 2004


If she is at the point where she wants her money back, then she may as well write it off. There is a 50/50 chance that this person will freak out and chase her to the ends of the Earth to get his bitcoin back. If the bitcoiner is thinking that his initial thousand dollar investment is going to be his retirement, then he believes that bitcoin will become the defacto global currency.

In other words... 21 million bitcoins (the total ever made) would be worth 60+ trillion dollars, or 3 million per coin. So her selling maybe 30 coins today would cost him 100 million in the future. That he is whining about her holding the coins as collateral is a big red flag, and I would suggest extreme caution in selling his precious coins. She should enjoy her relationship for what it is, and not loan him any more money. It is a costly lesson, but not the end of the world for a young professional.

You really don't want someone harassing/stalking you. Especially if you are someone who can be easily tracked down, like a doctor.

Tokamak fucked around with this message at 10:33 on Jan 18, 2016

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Tokamak
Dec 22, 2004

Onkel Hedwig posted:

As far as I know after Silk Road went under one of the other market places became the new number one, and business is pretty much back to normal.

One of the more popular replacements suddenly shut down, and announced that they would return any unspent money. People assumed it was a scam, but within the week people started getting their money back. An illegal drug market is more honest than 95% of bitcoin businesses.

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