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corporateslave2
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Bitcoin study: Period of exclusivity encourages ea...
Oh I see. Bank/corporation owned currency is a weird concept....
omarchowdhury
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What do you mean? Obviously if they can create their own blockchain they can issue their own currency, too. It's just a book of who has how much.
campbelltown
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Blockchains only improve the efficiency of permissionless system. If you're going to create an in-house currency, it would be idiotic to use something as un-scalable as a blockchain.
omarchowdhury
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What makes Bitcoin, not an in house currency, also not idiotic in your case?
campbelltown
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Permissionless ownership.
omarchowdhury
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Instead here your gatekeepers are speculators and miners and early adopters.
Frogolocalypse
on July 14, 2017
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The 'gatekeepers' are anyone who has bitcoin.
campbelltown
on July 15, 2017
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Even further, there are no gatekeepers...
c0nducktr
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It sounds like something you'd find in a cyberpunk novel.
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