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You are way too defensive. Bitcoin provides value for me. I just don't see anything special or unique about what was shown before.
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Yeah fcking awesome indeed. I just see no difference here, from usability standpoint, from paying using PayPass card or NFC terminal.
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For now I am convinced that bitcoin system is basically only new payment system like paypal. Bitcoin unit is needed to participate in this new payment system - it is useless outside of that. As long as people value properties of bitcoin payment system to transfer what is considered estabilished money around there will be demand for bitcoin units. Are
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[quote user="National Acrobat"] Guns are made for killing. Cars kill, at best, as a side effect or secondary function. So it's not about everything that can end up killing someone. It's about things that are made specifically for the purpose of killing, which makes them, generally speaking, extremely good at killing and thus dangerous
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There are independants that became very big: notch (minecraft) for example. Valve is making some of their games free to play (tf2, dota2 both cosmetic items only) and very successful.
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[quote user="Anenome"] Ugh, gag reflex. [/quote] This video is not available in your country...
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I am from Poland.
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[quote user="AJ"] However, the "no starting value" argument died for me the day I realized that sending money home from Japan would be way cheaper and faster if I used Bitcoin. [/quote] In the days before Bitcoin system I could send money faster an cheaper almost anywhere in the world by using my credit card or checking account as
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Measures like this do not measure wealth. It doesn't matter how much money you make. What matters is what can you buy for it and whether what you can buy for it satisfies your wants more than in the past. I could argue that although people make less money they can have their needs satisfied better today. Amount of money you make is meaningless by
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[quote user="SkepticalMetal"] But of course the good-hearted governments of the world would have done this! Right? [/quote] Government is THE PEOPLE so he did not do it. Government did.