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by FreeRadical 3035 days ago
You may want to look into the Cyprus bank depositor haircuts of early 2013
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That's a good point, but won't do anything for adoption.

Bitcoin will be supported by stores and websites only if enough people use it, and people will use what is most convenient, not what is most secure or most private.

As long as people don't care about privacy, Bitcoin won't succeed. And if people ever care about it, half the users of HN will be without a job, considering they're almost all working at Google/Facebook/Amazon/startups selling private data