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Re: Paul Graham Endorses Bitcoin

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why did you put an email in your comment? P.S. Oh, i see, paid comments. sad.

You see a sad comment, I see a 1 minute job that gave me $3 and a good incentive to learn a bit more about bitcoins. Also, I like money. boohoo.

It's not the comment that's sad, it's the fact that for a pitifully low sum of money you were happy to shred the integrity of your comment.

Re: Paul Graham Endorses Bitcoin

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How about his indirect endorsement?

Where is this indirect endorsement? I see nothing on the linked page that supports this. All it says is that Graham has funded a Bitcoin-related startup, and then declares that this must mean he indirectly endorses it. I don't see how you make that inference. You can infer that Graham believes that there is money to be made in Bitcoin services, but not that he endorses Bitcoin itself.

I see 'believing that there is money to be made in Bitcoin services' as 'indirectly endorsing Bitcoin'

Re: Paul Graham Endorses Bitcoin

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You see a sad comment, I see a 1 minute job that gave me $3 and a good incentive to learn a bit more about bitcoins. Also, I like money. boohoo.

It's not the comment that's sad, it's the fact that for a pitifully low sum of money you were happy to shred the integrity of your comment.

Show me the part where I threw away the integrity of my comment. The comment doesn't pay lip-service to Coinbase (having never used it), and is basically the comment I would've written regardless.

Re: Paul Graham Endorses Bitcoin

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If Paul Graham endorses something, he'll write an essay explaining exactly why. Investing is gambling, and he's seeing what happens. On the off-chance that bitcoin does survive getting in early could pay off bigtime.
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