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Thoughts on Bitcoin

Maybe bitcoin will be the world reserve currency, maybe it will totally fail, or maybe it will survive in some niche capacity....

Published 2013-12-01 1 min read 71 words 1 topics
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Maybe bitcoin will be the world reserve currency, maybe it will totally fail, or maybe it will survive in some niche capacity....

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Maybe bitcoin will be the world reserve currency, maybe it will totally fail, or maybe it will survive in some niche capacity. I don’t know how to weight the probabilities (although I think in the immediate term it's likely to go down), but I do have a thought about the metric to watch: growth in legitimate transactions. A
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