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I don't think so. Once people realise they can buy real stuff with cryptos without being on the darknet (obligatory mention to particl), they'll see that they actually are a real. …

As I understand it, reflationing is fine provided you have a strong sovereign currency so you aren't at the mercy of the international forex markets. The US ticks this box, therefo…

MobileCoin isn't the only fast privacy coin in town - particl has most of the same features if not more, including a private ebay-style marketplace which should be ready for prime …

Yet . There are a couple of trivial ways they could end up with loads of coins and this statement could still be true as of the date of the quote.

An anonymous decentralised marketplace like Amazon is exactly the problem particl [1] is trying to solve. [1] particl.io

> Realistically, any crypto-as-payment service will either charge the merchants large fees Particl doesn't thanks to MAD escrow - https://particl.wiki/learn/marketplace/mad-escrow/…

> How much energy does watching porn consume? Just about all of mine

> Oil is ... worth something only if you can turn it into fuel, plastic or some other product for which there is demand. Same goes for gold. You clearly don't understand what "intr…

> The only question that matters is: is Bitcoin better than commodity X No. The only question that matters is will people collectively continue to agree that it's worth something, …

> I really don't understand this urge of breaking down anything digital into its fundamental units to try and diminish its value. It's the equivalent of evaluating anything in the …

The question is, will people run to it as a safe haven in the event of a huge stock market crash, or away from it? Nobody knows for sure. It's a game of chicken - not having the he…

No, I mean a depression. What we've seen is investors scrambling to find returns in riskier assets due to low interest rates, but the bubble hasn't burst yet. Once it does, we're l…

> Not really sure what’s point is for Tesla Speculation and free marketing I expect

It's going to take some pretty big balls to dump your money into bitcoin instead of gold or cash the next time the stock market crashes. Then we'll see how good a store of value it…

Potentially. Or for sellers of particularly high value goods where buyers and sellers both have to put up the same amount again as a deposit. It still seems like a novel approach a…

TBH I imagine developing smart contracts is clunky right now, like developing using AWS Lambda frameworks was a few years ago. But the tooling will improve. Perhaps it could be pos…

Its not fair when you have to get attention on twitter before getting issues like this resolved. Some of us don't use twitter for one thing

> What do you do if you pay someone online with bitcoin who then just doesn't deliver what you've ordered? This is the big problem with crypto. Trust moves around. But there is one…

This. Smart contracts have lots of possible uses such as removing brokers (housing deeds), flattening distribution (there's one musician selling on etherium via a smart contract) e…