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by choward 1946 days ago
> Think about it - if you had invested at any point in Bitcoin before today, you would have made money. But keep on resisting.

That's irrelevant to me. It's not all about "getting rich". It's not like everyone can become rich off of bitcoin. The only way you make money is taking it from someone else. At the end of the day, real work needs to be done in the world.
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fwiwm2c 1946 days ago
Lets assume it is a ponzi scheme and then make judgments based on that assumption.
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saalweachter 1946 days ago
... when people make money off Bitcoin, where does that money come from?

At least when the scam is selling shares of an imaginary gold mine, there is hypothetically somewhere for the profits to come from. With Bitcoin, there is only a $12B/year loss to electricity charges and no where for money to come into the system but absurd transaction fees.

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fwiwm2c 1945 days ago
My brain hurts when reading these silly replies. It is like you don't want to learn how things work. BTC has value because people assign to it and there is new money coming in (fiat converted to BTC) which is what makes the existing investors rich.

You all do deserve to stay poor and be labeled as #nocoinists.

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