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MattPalmer1086
on Nov 25, 2023
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The Bond villain compliance strategy
Well, if you want to actually spend your ill gotten gains, you pretty much need it in fiat currency. I don't see the point you are making.
matheusmoreira
on Nov 25, 2023
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The original purpose of cryptocurrency was to replace fiat by getting everyone to use it for their transactions. People would be pricing things in bitcoin or monero instead of USD.
MattPalmer1086
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Well, yeah, that was the original idea. Didn't work out like that though.
matheusmoreira
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Yes. That's the point. The fact it didn't work out like that, and turned into stonks line go up instead, is the tragedy of cryptocurrency.
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