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by bencoder 4594 days ago
What about counterparty risk? With eGoldCoin, you have to trust the issuer to actually have the gold that's backing the coins in circulation, and to never make any more than 100k eGoldCoin.

Bitcoin may not be backed by anything, but the fact that it can't be counterfeited or inflated gives it very interesting properties.