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johnrgrace on Jan 30, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: India plans to introduce law to ban Bitcoin, other...

Almost no one is using BTC, you can barely by anything with it.

offby37years on Jan 30, 2021 [–]

People are buying BTC to hedge against the coming wave of inflation. They're buying immunity.

jariel on Jan 31, 2021 | [–]

Then they're idiots.

If they want to hedge against inflation they would be buying real estate, equities and commodities - not magical monopoly money.

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