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by eriknstr 3553 days ago
What good is Bitcoin if the ecosystem is bad?
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jknoepfler 3553 days ago
It's pretty handy for money laundering and buying/selling illegal goods.
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nicky0 3553 days ago
If everybody used bitcoin for everything, then there would be no need for exchanges, payment gateways and the like. This stuff is added cruft.
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hueving 3553 days ago
People can't use bitcoin for everything, the network can't support enough transactions per second for even a small city of people to use it for everything.
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M_Grey 3553 days ago
Any statement that begins with, "if everyone..." is a fantasy.
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tarancato 3553 days ago
If my granny had wheels, she'd be a bicycle.
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nicky0 3552 days ago
You could add some ham and it would be a sort of British carbonara.
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