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To: Enlightened1
I saw a piece the other day predicting the eventual collapse of "bitcoin".It said,among other things,"try buying a car...or a house...with bitcoin".

Very good point,IMO.

4 posted on 12/18/2017 7:07:36 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Remember: All Cultures Are Equal!)
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To: Gay State Conservative

You can trade bitcoins for cash.

That’s someone that does not understand.


13 posted on 12/18/2017 7:29:34 AM PST by Enlightened1
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To: Gay State Conservative

“I saw a piece the other day predicting the eventual collapse of “bitcoin”.It said,among other things,”try buying a car...or a house...with bitcoin”.”

It’s not the coin where the money is, it is with the blockchain development. Companies are investing in blockchain technology to secure payments without fraud.

In the next year or two, companies developing anti-fraud applications will be the hot stock. Look at a company like Ripple XRP.


25 posted on 12/18/2017 7:41:51 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (We're CNN. We're not lying, we're just incompetent!)
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To: Gay State Conservative

“It said,among other things,”try buying a car...or a house...with bitcoin”.

You can buy a house with bitcoin - it’s been done.

You can buy citizenship in Vanuatu using bitcoin.

If you covert bitcoin, you can buy anything.


37 posted on 12/18/2017 7:58:30 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: Gay State Conservative
Yeah I wonder what percentage of bitcoin gets used as currency. It's so unstable it's useless as currency.

It's the perfect scam, limit the total to 21 million, then half all the coins available to mining every four years. Greedy speculators will do the rest. Just like MLM. Bitcoin is the perfect vehicle for speculation. It's a genius scheme.

39 posted on 12/18/2017 8:00:24 AM PST by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: Gay State Conservative

I saw a piece the other day predicting the eventual collapse of “bitcoin”.It said,among other things,”try buying a car...or a house...with bitcoin”.


Bitcoin can be converted to $ and buy anything. So maybe it will crash, but don’t use the argument “try buying x y z with bitcoin” because it only shows its detractors ignorance.


46 posted on 12/18/2017 8:26:37 AM PST by miniTAX (n)
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Last week I converted $4000.00 of BTC & LTC to USD and bought a TV this weekend paying cash. At my US$ cost basis the TV cost me ~$300.00.


49 posted on 12/18/2017 8:36:51 AM PST by Ribeye
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To: Gay State Conservative

Try doing the same with gold.


53 posted on 12/18/2017 8:49:13 AM PST by Vermont Lt (Burn. It. Down.)
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The Infiniti dealer in Tampa will accept Bitcoin.

And I believe it’s KW (Keller Wil.) that is selling a home in S. Tampa for Bitcoin.

In the fwiw dept.

5.56mm


66 posted on 12/18/2017 10:23:21 AM PST by M Kehoe
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