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by stackedinserter 1461 days ago
The main (and probably naive) idea of bitcoin is that you don't have to purchase it. Did you purchase the fiat money that you have on your bank account? No, you did something useful for someone and they paid you. Same for bitcoin – do something, or sell something for bitcoin, or do something useful for the network itself (mine your 6 coins per block), and boom you have coins.