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Cayenne

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14. It is world wide and has many uses

Reply to mwrguy (Reply #12)

Fri Sep 18, 2015, 05:31 PM

Sep 2015

Honduras will start using the blockchain for public property records because it is cheap, transparent, and uncorrupted. Sidechains can be used for entirely newly invented economies. Bitcoin is coming in where banks are failing, like Greece and Brazil.

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Bitcoin Is Officially a Commodity, According to U.S. Regulator [View all] PoliticAverse Sep 2015 OP

Good ole bitcoin. A con-man's attempt to literally conjure money from nothing. Bubzer Sep 2015 #1

If that were truly Bitcoin's history. The EFF supports it, along with AU, GB and the US. nt TheBlackAdder Sep 2015 #2

The US has comoditized it...not quite the same thing as supporting it. Bubzer Sep 2015 #8

Good mwrguy Sep 2015 #3

Why does it have to be reined in? Cayenne Sep 2015 #11

it was invented to allow people to cheat on taxes and money controls mwrguy Sep 2015 #12

It is world wide and has many uses Cayenne Sep 2015 #14

Same as with regular money Shankapotomus Nov 2015 #16

This is so stupid. Bitcoin isn't REAL! christx30 Sep 2015 #4

or Farmville cows. Hugin Sep 2015 #5

Well you can certainly buy some real things using it. n/t PoliticAverse Sep 2015 #7

whatever, but take note, they didn't say it was a currency. Javaman Sep 2015 #6

Sounds like a good time to cash in that Monopoly money I've been hoarding. Orrex Sep 2015 #9

There is apparently a demand for monopoly money sold on ebay, so there's that... n/t PoliticAverse Sep 2015 #10

Isn't Bitcoin the only currency of the Darknet? nt valerief Sep 2015 #13

Ask someone on Darknet, whatever that is. But on the regular internet, closeupready Nov 2015 #19

I liked it better with its edgier name olddots Sep 2015 #15

This is the kind of thread that is quite revealing about the average age of DUers (nt) Nye Bevan Nov 2015 #17

lol - yeah, if you mean it skews young. closeupready Nov 2015 #18