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if I'd be willing to pay 6-20 bucks for a simple transaction with a volatile currency and wanted to live with the threat of having my account hacked and no insurance whatsoever, sure



Your money has been hacked. You just don't recognize it.

https://d3fy651gv2fhd3.cloudfront.net/charts/united-states-m...

PS. Every standard sized bitcoin transaction bar the past three days (and those will too), that people paid over 5c for has been committed to the blockchain.


Yeah, that rampant inflation sure destroyed my savings account.

Oh wait, no it didn't.


House prices look like they're continuing their 30-year boom in my area. Oh that's right, they took them out of inflation statistics in 1983.

How's education costing these days, anyway? Healthcare?


Can you buy the same things for the same prices as when you first started saving?


That's not my money because I do not own any US Dollars, and more importantly I don't really see why a graph showing me the money supply is supposed to convince me to buy Bitcoin


Don't. No one is forcing you to buy bitcoin. If you don't recognise its value proposition, don't invest in it.




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