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by nickthegreek 826 days ago
Being better than Venezuelan currency isn’t the slam dunk point you might you think it is.
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It is for the Venezuelans. 28 million people were completely fucked by hyperinflation. Life savings destroyed.

The peer to peer network enabled them to circumvent the banking system, which is why BTC was created, according to the original paper.

https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf