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		Barrin92 on June 14, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Gets Big Backers and many people are compensated in highly volatile stocks that are subject to speculation, you paying someone in bitcoin doesn't change anything about its speculative nature, it just means your employees are willing to receive compensation in a volatile currency.

andkenneth on June 14, 2019 [–]

And they probably liquidate a good portion of it as soon as it hits their wallets.

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