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all that’s really necessary for a fiat currency to have worth is for users to trust that it will remain reasonably scarce

... and that other people will accept it in exchange for goods and services. Scarcity alone is no guarantee of that. For the vast, vast majority of people Bitcoin is literally worthless - the only thing you can do with it is attempt to convert it into real currency so you can actually use it for something. And they would rather you did that rather than trying to fob them off with a bunch of numbers.



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