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by tomcart 3132 days ago
> How many people want to buy gold but don't want to have third party trust with an organization that holds gold or have to hold it themselves.

How is this different with Bitcoin? Edit: by which i mean, either you work out what do do with the key, or you trust an exchange/online wallet provider to do it for you.

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Well because gold is heavy and large and tough to hide.
Also divide and prove purity. Both are trivial for bitcoin.