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What are you talking about? Bitcoin started this, it’s was the first scam. It’s all bad.
Bitcoin is publicly and clearly documented. It has always been. It has never failed its goals. It has never been shady
I will never, never get tired of these CHUDdy types self-reporting every time.
“It has never been shady,” commenting on a post about one of the largest scams of all time lmfao
Oh yes, it’s just as good as money, it’s a real currency and totally not vapor as long as you act as your own bank and maintain ironclad digital and physical security, never slipping up a single time. Oh and your savings (because this is a currency) are completely uninsured. Totally reasonable asks to make of an average consumer.
Instead of writing shit you have no clue about spend 10 minutes of your life learning what cryptocurrencies are. MtGox scammed people and they were a bank.
Just spent 10 minutes researching MtGox, sounds like they were a pretty terrible bitcoin exchange and nowhere close to a bank.
You guys seem to forget that it had a very real purpose before... buying illegal shit on the internet. It didnt "start as a scam".
You don't seem to be well aware of the inner workings of the traditional banking system you claim to like so much. What you believe to be "real" money is a lot less real than you think
Real money is whatever the powers that be demand payment in.
No. You are confusing currency with money
Yeah but the value of my money doesn’t swing rapidly daily, and transactions process in seconds instead of minutes to hours. Oh and it’s actually accepted as a form of payment at most institutions.
Bitcoin, and all other cryptocurrencies, are securities at best and straight gambling at worst.