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wumpus on Dec 18, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why you can’t cash out part 1: Bitcoin’s “price” i...

"replace bitcoin with gold" and you'd have a different article. One of the two has a many-thousand-year history of liquidity, and a lot more market demand and trading (on regulated exchanges) today.

alpatters on Dec 18, 2017 [–]

I don't think the history of gold changes the argument here. As a store of capital gold has also been stolen by corrupt governments in history.

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