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by kindfellow92 3082 days ago
If you can’t see how Bitcoin provides millions of others a valuable service, you have a poor imagination.
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Please do explain this service! Because as far as I can tell it's got no real utility outside of speculation.
How about the ability to move large sums of money around the world without having to trust or be limited by any government or bank?
Not really that useful to many millions of people IMHO.
Millions, yes it is... the world is a lot bigger place than you think it is.
Sorry, I don't believe being able to transfer large amounts of money around without having to trust or be limited by banks or governments is much concern to 'millions'.

There really aren't all that many people that have problems with that, who are that distrustful of existing infrastructure.

There are millions of millionaires in China alone that are very concerned about the future security and mobility of their money. Now consider India, Russia, Iran. This isn’t fiction.