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by nosuchthing 4058 days ago
The greater issue of BTC is the odds between hording speculators who "believe" the "rarity" of Bitcoin will increase the market price. Currency should be predictably stable as a medium to facilitate exchange of other goods and services. Currency should also be encouraged to recirculate back into the economy, rather than sit around doing nothing.

There's also a huge issue of people dedicating effort to form price manipulator syndicates and HFT bots within the cryptocoin communities [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7126153