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by DarronWyke 3098 days ago
>Paying "$10 equivalent in bitcoin cash" (or bitcoin, or litecoin, or whatever) is using those cryptocurrencies as a payment gateway; the currency in those transactions is $.

Precisely. We're entering some real fiat currency inception here. Bitcoin is worth whatever people value it at, similar to most forms of currency (backed by the faith of the issuing government). Now we're going to faith upon faith.