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Bitcoin is the only sound money in existence. It will slowly devour fiat currency over time and humanity will benefit.

There are quite a few similarities to the fall of monarchies.






It's good in some ways - value goes up, independent of governments - but bad in others - too unstable in value for day to day transactions, wages, mortgages and the like.

Money that isn't freely exchangeable isn't money at all.

Gold is basically the same. The only upside to bitcoin is that it works over the internet so it’s much faster to trade



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