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3 fatal flaws with digital crypto currencies in their present form....

 
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so what were the 3 fatal flaws to anyone who baught bitcoin 1,2 or 3 yrs ago? or Etherium or fucking litecoin for that matter.

Now you and a handful of fucking idiots know what the fatal flaws are?

Seems the only fatal flaw is/was you and the other idiots here missed out.

Dropping mic of your dumb ass!!!!!
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^This!
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Re: 3 fatal flaws with digital crypto currencies in their present form....
They are not...

Tangible

Portable

Concealable
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75970138


They are not...

Tangible

Portable

Concealable
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75970138


False on all three counts.

1. They are currently THE most tangible form wealth/currency since they cannot be counterfeited, duplicated, are infallibly secure, nearly infinitely divisible, and can actually be utilized in a modern economy unlike gold or silver which is impossible to utilize electronically or even he accurate change for in a face to fac daily transaction.

2. In another 7-10 years ALL “precious” metals will be rendered nearly worthless save for their industrial applications once asteroid mining begins in earnest and there is a limitless supply of easily obtained and cheap gold, silver, platinum, etc.

3. What could POSSIBLY be more portable or concealable than having the ability to store BILLIONS of “dollars” worth of wealth on a micro as chip half the size of your little fingernail? No banks, exchanges, markets, vaults, safes, or even abriefcase necessary. You can’t do that with cash, gemstones, metals, or securities of any kind.

4. Buy a cheap $29 stainless steel mesh wallet designed to protect against NFC fields and now you hav them in a faraday cage making them secure even from an EMP attack. Name ONE thing on earth that could possibly be more transportable or concealable?? Have fun lugging your gold dabloons around and paying $1200 for every single thing you buy because nobody has equivalent silver or even a scale to make change for you.

On the bright side, soon you won’t need change since solid gold will be cheaper than plastic is once someone drags Eros 433 back to low earth orbit.
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hesright
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Re: 3 fatal flaws with digital crypto currencies in their present form....
OP obviously has no fucking clue about cryptos
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Re: 3 fatal flaws with digital crypto currencies in their present form....
#4 Its not stable enough to be used as a currency -
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Re: 3 fatal flaws with digital crypto currencies in their present form....
They are not...

Tangible

Portable

Concealable
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75970138



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Re: 3 fatal flaws with digital crypto currencies in their present form....
I read somewhere that there are 3 fatal pitfalls with a digital bit-coin

#1 In GOD Nobody We Trust

If you think the Global elite bankers are going to sit on the sidelines and let this take over, you are crazy. They are playing us all as fools.


#2 No Guarantees
Exchanges have already been hacked and stolen


#3 No Inherent Value
Just like there is no longer any value in the Fiat Currency we currently use, there is certainly no value in ones and zero's sitting in cyberspace..... Tell me, what is a fair price? A price based on wild speculation??

If you think The Powers that Think They Be are going to sit on the sidelines and let this take over, you are fooling yourself. they are behind this all the way. Just go look at the cover of the Economist magazine from 1988

(unable to paste link from silver doctors commentary)..... /headlines/world-news/world-cryptocurrency-not-gold-backed-yu​an-in-light-of-the-1988-economist-magazine/
Snip "It is a growth-crippling prospect. Pencil in the phoenix for around 2018, and welcome it when it comes."

Is the value of Bitcoin the value of the flood of monies into the coin? Is this what it is worth? Pure Speculation!

Money that floods into these coins at a break neck speed, is this what gives it its value?

This is the stuff panzi schemes from the 80's were made of, (except now they live in digital world), those who get in early rake in the money from all the suckers, er people who got in late. They tout how they got rich (off OPM) and are living fat n happy now.
WOO HOO - Good for you, for getting in and getting out. Raking in profits on the suckers who came in behind you. Do you truly wear that badge of honor proudly? Do you look down on others who didn't get in? Couldn't get in? Or had the sense that something wasn't quite right with it?

A digital drug, intoxicating to those who jumped in early, those watching and are tempted to jump in now, and to those in control.

The Committee Called "They" call this a currency, Why? How is that possible?

How can there be price stability in a digital currency that has no limits and that is not backed by anything tangible?

The true definition of currency is to exchange one medium for another. Is this not suppose to be with some sort of stability?

If the value of the dollar right now is tagged to this crypto currency, then we are truly witnessing the de-value of our money right before our eyes.

For every dollar that floods into this 'currency', sucks the life blood away from the masses and makes people more dependent on a digital world and now not only a slave to the debt system we currently live in, but now a become a digital slave, more intwined in the wicked web we all helped weave....

You should be proud of your action.

We all know wallets can be stolen, hacked and now the pickpockets can do it while sitting in the comfort of their chair.

Help usher in the new age of coin, it will be implanted on the back of your hand soon enough, where else would it be safe?


But what do I know, this is just my 2 cents which, in my opinion, is worth more than any digital crypto coin...

Put your Trust in Jesus, the End is near....

peace
IMHO
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 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75787798


Use your haed.. Power out,lol,
stupid people don't secure their holdings and you think it was hacked?? 100,000 dolars in bitcoin in a 500 hundred dollar computer..Idiot.
hardware wallets... Bank in your pocket.. YOU know NOthing..


Hey dildo,
So...why wouldn’t you just keep your bitcoins in your hardware wallet? And the “power going out” is a non-issu in the long term. Even IF the ENTIRE grisly went out from an EMP attack...the owners of this planet would have the lights back on so goddamn fast it would make your head spin as electricity is what allows them to keep the slave population in servitude to them. No lights...no slaves. You think they’ll let THAT happen? lmao
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hesright
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I wish I wasn't, but I am.

The thing is the current system is falling for this trap. They're falling right into the hands of whoever designed this thing by taking advantage of the greed inherent in the capitalist system.

Someone needs to take a long look at WHO designed this and WHY and really make sure that it is illegal to use crypto as a strategic reserve ever. If it ever does then you can guarentee what happened with Mt. Gox and all those other Exchanges that disappeared will happen on a global scale on some nondescript day, just like 9/11 did.

Only this time it will actually work in destroying the financial system and most western democracies with it.

Someone needs to call the FBI (the good part of it) over this. It's a clear and present danger to the United States, and every other nation on earth as presently constituted.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 74848600


Heavens sake some of you people really do need to learn a lot more, not ust about cryptocurrency but outside of that too.

Cryptocurrency is not big enough to bring the financial system down. There was a story published in the last few days saying its not bitcoin thats the ticking time bomb its the EURO.

The biggest threat to the financial system is itself.
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Either you're not following what I'm saying or deliberately being obtuse because you a) don't like the fact that it is a house of cards since you're in the house or b) have always realized this is a trap for capitalism in general and you're in on it.

The EURO has value.

The Bitcoin has value.

I can't take away the value of the EURO by blowing up 50 computers or so, but I can take away your Bitcoin's value by targeting the 50 computers of the EXCHANGES which CONVERT BITCOIN INTO REAL WORLD MONEY.

NO EXCHANGES = NO WAY TO MAKE YOUR COIN INTO SOMETHING ELSE.

Which, if this happens, means your Coin and everyone else's Coin is WORTHLESS.

No need to blow up the internet.
No need to take down large systems.
All it takes is blowing up a finite number of servers which carry the Exchanges.

Get it?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 74848600


Its not the exchanges that give value to such though is it. Sure bitcoin and the rest would drop in value but they would not die. You would have to get rid of the internet like others have said because in no time at all you would see total 100% decentalised exchanges all over the place.
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Either you're not following what I'm saying or deliberately being obtuse because you a) don't like the fact that it is a house of cards since you're in the house or b) have always realized this is a trap for capitalism in general and you're in on it.

The EURO has value.

The Bitcoin has value.

I can't take away the value of the EURO by blowing up 50 computers or so, but I can take away your Bitcoin's value by targeting the 50 computers of the EXCHANGES which CONVERT BITCOIN INTO REAL WORLD MONEY.

NO EXCHANGES = NO WAY TO MAKE YOUR COIN INTO SOMETHING ELSE.

Which, if this happens, means your Coin and everyone else's Coin is WORTHLESS.

No need to blow up the internet.
No need to take down large systems.
All it takes is blowing up a finite number of servers which carry the Exchanges.

Get it?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 74848600


No, you're clueless and clearly don't get it yourself.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75970255


So I guess it's b) for you, huh?

Thanks for letting us know where you stand.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 74848600


I stand with the fact that when the time comes, people won't have to turn their bitcoin into that imaginary kenyesian fiat you call "REAL WORLD MONEY" that you worship so dearly.

It is distributed across a lot more than "50 computers". Try millions. You really need to stop posting and do a tiny bit of research.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75970255


Now I know you're being deliberately obtuse.

The Exchanges are distributed across millions of servers?

You and I both know that's not true.

You are outing yourself as a shill for a project to destroy capitalism.
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Bank in your fuckin pocket..
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Re: 3 fatal flaws with digital crypto currencies in their present form....
They are not...

Tangible

Portable

Concealable
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75970138


They are not...

Tangible

Portable

Concealable
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75970138


False on all three counts.

1. They are currently THE most tangible form wealth/currency since they cannot be counterfeited, duplicated, are infallibly secure, nearly infinitely divisible, and can actually be utilized in a modern economy unlike gold or silver which is impossible to utilize electronically or even he accurate change for in a face to fac daily transaction.

2. In another 7-10 years ALL “precious” metals will be rendered nearly worthless save for their industrial applications once asteroid mining begins in earnest and there is a limitless supply of easily obtained and cheap gold, silver, platinum, etc.

3. What could POSSIBLY be more portable or concealable than having the ability to store BILLIONS of “dollars” worth of wealth on a micro as chip half the size of your little fingernail? No banks, exchanges, markets, vaults, safes, or even abriefcase necessary. You can’t do that with cash, gemstones, metals, or securities of any kind.

4. Buy a cheap $29 stainless steel mesh wallet designed to protect against NFC fields and now you hav them in a faraday cage making them secure even from an EMP attack. Name ONE thing on earth that could possibly be more transportable or concealable?? Have fun lugging your gold dabloons around and paying $1200 for every single thing you buy because nobody has equivalent silver or even a scale to make change for you.

On the bright side, soon you won’t need change since solid gold will be cheaper than plastic is once someone drags Eros 433 back to low earth orbit.
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hesright
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there's already more different cryptos then there is gold on that astroid
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I wish I wasn't, but I am.

The thing is the current system is falling for this trap. They're falling right into the hands of whoever designed this thing by taking advantage of the greed inherent in the capitalist system.

Someone needs to take a long look at WHO designed this and WHY and really make sure that it is illegal to use crypto as a strategic reserve ever. If it ever does then you can guarentee what happened with Mt. Gox and all those other Exchanges that disappeared will happen on a global scale on some nondescript day, just like 9/11 did.

Only this time it will actually work in destroying the financial system and most western democracies with it.

Someone needs to call the FBI (the good part of it) over this. It's a clear and present danger to the United States, and every other nation on earth as presently constituted.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 74848600


Heavens sake some of you people really do need to learn a lot more, not ust about cryptocurrency but outside of that too.

Cryptocurrency is not big enough to bring the financial system down. There was a story published in the last few days saying its not bitcoin thats the ticking time bomb its the EURO.

The biggest threat to the financial system is itself.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73445540


Either you're not following what I'm saying or deliberately being obtuse because you a) don't like the fact that it is a house of cards since you're in the house or b) have always realized this is a trap for capitalism in general and you're in on it.

The EURO has value.

The Bitcoin has value.

I can't take away the value of the EURO by blowing up 50 computers or so, but I can take away your Bitcoin's value by targeting the 50 computers of the EXCHANGES which CONVERT BITCOIN INTO REAL WORLD MONEY.

NO EXCHANGES = NO WAY TO MAKE YOUR COIN INTO SOMETHING ELSE.

Which, if this happens, means your Coin and everyone else's Coin is WORTHLESS.

No need to blow up the internet.
No need to take down large systems.
All it takes is blowing up a finite number of servers which carry the Exchanges.

Get it?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 74848600


Its not the exchanges that give value to such though is it. Sure bitcoin and the rest would drop in value but they would not die. You would have to get rid of the internet like others have said because in no time at all you would see total 100% decentalised exchanges all over the place.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73445540


Not if ALL the Exchanges failed instantly.

Therein is the fatal flaw.

I can't code an exchange in 5 minutes, can you? Or even an hour? How does one go about restarting a complex system when it's gone in an instant? The very value of the thing is lost if all of the places where value is ascribed is taken away.

See: Mt. Gox.
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To those of you who are concerned about exchanges, let me add, I understand, and to certain degree, I agree.

Exchanges ARE the weak link in the entire cryptosphere.

They are the weak link because they are, more or less, centralized.

But do not fear, peer-to-peer exchanging is coming. You may have heard of atomic swaps on the lightning network?

That will ELIMINATE exchanges, and it is coming, soon.

Other things are in development that can help eliminate the exchanges. Veritaseum. Reggie Middleton's project, and my third pick for top coin of 2018.

The reason I am encouraging everyone to get in and get some cryptos now is because waiting just means less purchasing value in the future. Get some cryptos now and put them on your own personal wallet that you control.

NEVER, store your coins in an exchange's online wallet any longer that absolutely necessary.
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Re: 3 fatal flaws with digital crypto currencies in their present form....
They are not...

Tangible

Portable

Concealable
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75970138


They are not...

Tangible

Portable

Concealable
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75970138


False on all three counts.

1. They are currently THE most tangible form wealth/currency since they cannot be counterfeited, duplicated, are infallibly secure, nearly infinitely divisible, and can actually be utilized in a modern economy unlike gold or silver which is impossible to utilize electronically or even he accurate change for in a face to fac daily transaction.

2. In another 7-10 years ALL “precious” metals will be rendered nearly worthless save for their industrial applications once asteroid mining begins in earnest and there is a limitless supply of easily obtained and cheap gold, silver, platinum, etc.

3. What could POSSIBLY be more portable or concealable than having the ability to store BILLIONS of “dollars” worth of wealth on a micro as chip half the size of your little fingernail? No banks, exchanges, markets, vaults, safes, or even abriefcase necessary. You can’t do that with cash, gemstones, metals, or securities of any kind.

4. Buy a cheap $29 stainless steel mesh wallet designed to protect against NFC fields and now you hav them in a faraday cage making them secure even from an EMP attack. Name ONE thing on earth that could possibly be more transportable or concealable?? Have fun lugging your gold dabloons around and paying $1200 for every single thing you buy because nobody has equivalent silver or even a scale to make change for you.

On the bright side, soon you won’t need change since solid gold will be cheaper than plastic is once someone drags Eros 433 back to low earth orbit.
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hesright
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there's already more different cryptos then there is gold on that astroid
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Not bitcoin. Only 21 million bitcoin will be created ever. 16 million have already been mined and a few million have been lost forever due to people losing their private keys. Only going to go up, pal. Keep clinging to your shiny metal!
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the value is the protocol as a trustless medium of exchange that sustains itself with no central actors by providing incentives in the form of people mining/staking/running master nodes.

platforms for video media, music, file transfer, contracts can be built on top of it and their are countless examples but i doubt you will look.

THAT'S THE VALUE!!

do you not pay endless transaction fees at banks to do some of these very things?
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Most dont pay attention to that.
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when the dollar collapses they will. lol
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People dont understand cryptos were made by Quantum computers like the D-wave quantum computer - people think its hard to mine and impossible to cheat but they know nothing about Quantum computers or how they work-
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Wake up..
exodus.io
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You can "explain" this to me until you are blue in the face.

You can insult me.

I am non-tech.

I will not do this.

This is the truth:

if the non-tech do not take the bait, poof go the "value" of your "coins."
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Keep watching that purchasing power shrink, buddy. Can't say we didn't try. God speed!
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Your "purchasing power" can shrink too with your "coin."

Unless one has the skills of an elite programmer/hacker, this is a ponzi.

The non-tech are being insulted by the tech elite (there's always an elite, isn't there?) to be bullied into this scheme because somebody other than themselves has to buy.
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You can "explain" this to me until you are blue in the face.

You can insult me.

I am non-tech.

I will not do this.

This is the truth:

if the non-tech do not take the bait, poof go the "value" of your "coins."
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73052266


Keep watching that purchasing power shrink, buddy. Can't say we didn't try. God speed!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75970255


Your "purchasing power" can shrink too with your "coin."

Unless one has the skills of an elite programmer/hacker, this is a ponzi.

The non-tech are being insulted by the tech elite (there's always an elite, isn't there?) to be bullied into this scheme because somebody other than themselves has to buy.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73052266


The US Dollar is back by our military cryptos are back by AI and Greed -
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People dont understand cryptos were made by Quantum computers like the D-wave quantum computer - people think its hard to mine and impossible to cheat but they know nothing about Quantum computers or how they work-
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NC-ud0ntsay

Explain it to us like we're kindergartners please.
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bankers are not freeking out over bitcoin

over the least they see it as a kind of paypal and on the level they see it as COINS - bit (computer COINS)

f0r collecting.

thats what it is and will always be
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You can "explain" this to me until you are blue in the face.

You can insult me.

I am non-tech.

I will not do this.

This is the truth:

if the non-tech do not take the bait, poof go the "value" of your "coins."
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73052266


Keep watching that purchasing power shrink, buddy. Can't say we didn't try. God speed!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75970255


Your "purchasing power" can shrink too with your "coin."

Unless one has the skills of an elite programmer/hacker, this is a ponzi.

The non-tech are being insulted by the tech elite (there's always an elite, isn't there?) to be bullied into this scheme because somebody other than themselves has to buy.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73052266


Funny, mine has only continued to grow. BTW, I'm not an "elite programmer/hacker" either. All it takes is a little brain power and you too can enter bitcoin so save yourself! My 70 year old father just bought his first bitcoin and has already doubled his money. Now he's buying litecoin and loving it. It gives him something to do (he's retired). If my 70 year old non-tech father can do it, anyone can. In no way was I "bullied" into this. Quit feeling sorry for yourself.
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People dont understand cryptos were made by Quantum computers like the D-wave quantum computer - people think its hard to mine and impossible to cheat but they know nothing about Quantum computers or how they work-
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NC-ud0ntsay

Explain it to us like we're kindergartners please.
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[link to www.youtube.com (secure)]

[link to www.youtube.com (secure)]

i aint got the time AI created cryptos to exploit human greed-
You guys are fools your also treating it like a stock market investment and not the intended purpose of being a currency- burn in the lake of fire you marked beasts -
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People dont understand cryptos were made by Quantum computers like the D-wave quantum computer - people think its hard to mine and impossible to cheat but they know nothing about Quantum computers or how they work-
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NC-ud0ntsay

Explain it to us like we're kindergartners please.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75970255


[link to www.youtube.com (secure)]

[link to www.youtube.com (secure)]

i aint got the time AI created cryptos to exploit human greed-
You guys are fools your also treating it like a stock market investment and not the intended purpose of being a currency- burn in the lake of fire you marked beasts -
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BINGO the chip in your wrist is almost here
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Honestly found more practical value in Steam Trading Cards than crypto currencies; and it's made me twice as much. People are literally attached to those, it's an addiction on par with drugs...

If anything "mining" is lazy, investing in crypto is a "lazy way to make money", and we can't be sure it will last.

Maybe it will. But every market, including Video Games, carshes hard at some point. I doubt crypto is an exception, even with history.
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People dont understand cryptos were made by Quantum computers like the D-wave quantum computer - people think its hard to mine and impossible to cheat but they know nothing about Quantum computers or how they work-
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NC-ud0ntsay

Explain it to us like we're kindergartners please.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75970255


[link to www.youtube.com (secure)]

[link to www.youtube.com (secure)]

i aint got the time AI created cryptos to exploit human greed-
You guys are fools your also treating it like a stock market investment and not the intended purpose of being a currency- burn in the lake of fire you marked beasts -
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Hard to argue with the logic of a bible tard...

Wasn't the mark of the beast social security numbers? And then credit cards? And then QR codes? And now bitcoin? Wonder what the next mark of the beast will be...

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You can "explain" this to me until you are blue in the face.

You can insult me.

I am non-tech.

I will not do this.

This is the truth:

if the non-tech do not take the bait, poof go the "value" of your "coins."
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73052266


Keep watching that purchasing power shrink, buddy. Can't say we didn't try. God speed!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75970255


Your "purchasing power" can shrink too with your "coin."

Unless one has the skills of an elite programmer/hacker, this is a ponzi.

The non-tech are being insulted by the tech elite (there's always an elite, isn't there?) to be bullied into this scheme because somebody other than themselves has to buy.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73052266


Funny, mine has only continued to grow. BTW, I'm not an "elite programmer/hacker" either. All it takes is a little brain power and you too can enter bitcoin so save yourself! My 70 year old father just bought his first bitcoin and has already doubled his money. Now he's buying litecoin and loving it. It gives him something to do (he's retired). If my 70 year old non-tech father can do it, anyone can. In no way was I "bullied" into this. Quit feeling sorry for yourself.
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Anything that you and your loved ones buy is not worth much unless other people are also willing to buy into that same market.

I am non-tech and will probably never have the skills needed to wield this instrument.

Nothing anyone says will cause me to betray myself.
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I wish I wasn't, but I am.

The thing is the current system is falling for this trap. They're falling right into the hands of whoever designed this thing by taking advantage of the greed inherent in the capitalist system.

Someone needs to take a long look at WHO designed this and WHY and really make sure that it is illegal to use crypto as a strategic reserve ever. If it ever does then you can guarentee what happened with Mt. Gox and all those other Exchanges that disappeared will happen on a global scale on some nondescript day, just like 9/11 did.

Only this time it will actually work in destroying the financial system and most western democracies with it.

Someone needs to call the FBI (the good part of it) over this. It's a clear and present danger to the United States, and every other nation on earth as presently constituted.
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Heavens sake some of you people really do need to learn a lot more, not ust about cryptocurrency but outside of that too.

Cryptocurrency is not big enough to bring the financial system down. There was a story published in the last few days saying its not bitcoin thats the ticking time bomb its the EURO.

The biggest threat to the financial system is itself.
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Either you're not following what I'm saying or deliberately being obtuse because you a) don't like the fact that it is a house of cards since you're in the house or b) have always realized this is a trap for capitalism in general and you're in on it.

The EURO has value.

The Bitcoin has value.

I can't take away the value of the EURO by blowing up 50 computers or so, but I can take away your Bitcoin's value by targeting the 50 computers of the EXCHANGES which CONVERT BITCOIN INTO REAL WORLD MONEY.

NO EXCHANGES = NO WAY TO MAKE YOUR COIN INTO SOMETHING ELSE.

Which, if this happens, means your Coin and everyone else's Coin is WORTHLESS.

No need to blow up the internet.
No need to take down large systems.
All it takes is blowing up a finite number of servers which carry the Exchanges.

Get it?
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You do know bitcoin and other cryptos used to be sold on eBay. Even if there was no exchanges people could just send money by PayPal in exchange for the coins.
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#4 quantum computing...
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Re: 3 fatal flaws with digital crypto currencies in their present form....
1. If you can't put your hands on it
you don't own it.
2. If you can't keep someone or something
from taking it away from you,
you don't own it.

DEATH is going to take away everything you
have, including your life, SO:

"OWNERSHIP" of ANYTHING is only temporary.
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Re: 3 fatal flaws with digital crypto currencies in their present form....
1. If you can't put your hands on it
you don't own it.
2. If you can't keep someone or something
from taking it away from you,
you don't own it.

DEATH is going to take away everything you
have, including your life, SO:

"OWNERSHIP" of ANYTHING is only temporary.

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Bah.
To which I can add, "if you can't physically sit on it so that it does not move and will not be destroyed by your weight and won't hurt you, you don't own it.





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