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Why would anyone accept a private key as payment? It's not very private if you gave it to me.

Too difficult to audit the total supply, and tail emission. Bitcoin is anonymous enough while remaining fully auditable (nobody secretly printing it out of thin air) and perfectly scarce.

If you think it's one of the least interesting technologies, then I suggest you don't understand the power of ideal scarcity in a liquid, digital asset


He's a guy who understands the fundamental attributes of money and economic value, and enough technical know-how to have confidence in Bitcoin's design

Financial experts (of whom many don't get bitcoin) understand finance.


My brain isn't capable of the mental gymnastics performed here.


It's a shame about the tail-emission and the difficulty in auditing the total supply


No money is more efficient than bitcoin.


decades


Shame about it's tail emission and poor supply audit-ability


"Cointelegraph was unable to independently verify the owner of the new wallet"


Evidence that just because you learnt about bitcoin early, it doesn't mean you understand how it fits into the world. It seems some people simply aren't cut out to understand it. Bitcoin appears to them as some weird Ponzi scheme that just strangely never stops.


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