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by CamperBob2 4584 days ago
A currency without the major use case being legitimate transactions is going to fail.

Couldn't he have said the same thing about a protocol like BitTorrent?
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jmilloy 4584 days ago
He means legitimate as in "I gave you bitcoins for a concrete purpose" rather than "recognized as legal by a government." People are using BitTorrent for an actual purpose, so it's different.
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