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Imagine sitting a till for 45 minutes waiting for your transaction to be included in a block so you can pay for your groceries but bitcoin crashes during that time and you have to spend eight times as much bitcoin as you did when you walked in the store.

Imagine being so fucking retarded as to think people will tolerate that and that bitcoin has a future.

Imagine sitting a till for 45 minutes waiting for your transaction to be included in a block so you can pay for your groceries but bitcoin crashes during that time and you have to spend eight times as much bitcoin as you did when you walked in the store. Imagine being so fucking retarded as to think people will tolerate that and that bitcoin has a future.

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Everything has a risk. You're not wrong, the encryption may well be broken at some point in the future.

And we may find asteroids of pure gold, mine them, and flood the gold market, making gold basically worthless.

And our fiat currency "may" be mismanaged so badly that is fails, like Zimbabwe, Venezuela, or the US Dollar.

Pointing out one potential issue with a product and completely dismissing it will lead you to make bad choices. You need to look at the available options and weigh the pros and cons - risk vs reward - of each product.

Bitcoin absolutely has risk, and bitcoin has crashed, but bitcoin is up 1 gazillion % over the last decade. USD is down 95% over the last hundred years. USD is stable and consistent - but its constant is slowly going to 0 because the people the control the money are stealing it all through inflation. They're doing it slowly so you don't catch on, like a frog in water that's heated slowly. I can't believe how many humans aren't smarter than a frog...