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CamperBob2
on Dec 1, 2013
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Thoughts on Bitcoin
A currency without the major use case being legitimate transactions is going to fail.
Couldn't he have said the same thing about a protocol like BitTorrent?
jmilloy
on Dec 2, 2013
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He means legitimate as in "I gave you bitcoins for a concrete purpose" rather than "recognized as legal by a government." People are using BitTorrent for an actual purpose, so it's different.
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Couldn't he have said the same thing about a protocol like BitTorrent?