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“Meet The World’s Most Powerful Bitcoin Backers” - i.e. “people who are just a single errant zero or one away from bankruptcy”.

I may get interested if and when they start making them out of gold.... Otherwise it's just another promissory note...er coin.... I'm I right or am I wrong...?

[LouieFisk]

“Otherwise it’s just another promissory note...er coin.... I’m I right or am I wrong...?”
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Yup. At least you can hold onto a promissory note and it might be a pretty one at that. Some German “Inflation Notes” are pretty cool to collect. I guess the irony in that is they are worth way more now than when they were printed.