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All true. One difference between Bitcoin and dollars is public perception driven by multiple forces -- experience, some untested assumptions, and social expectations. Alto TBTF (Too Big To Fail) plays a part -- we're not going to allow dollars to fluctuate too wildly and destabilize the economy.

But another difference between Bitcoin and traditional media of exchange is that Bitcoin relies on very good, utterly reliable software, and that doesn't exist at the moment.