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Title: 2013-4-14 Tech Crunch - How Five Real Economists Think About Bitcoin’s Future Post by: randrace on April 15, 2013, 04:57:08 AM Iterations: How Five Real Economists Think About Bitcoin’s Future (http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/14/iterations-how-five-real-economists-think-about-bitcoins-future/)
This question got me very excited: But what if a sovereign state was to issue an algorithm-based currency? Would that drive fiat money out of business? Title: Re: 2013-4-14 Tech Crunch - How Five Real Economists Think About Bitcoin’s Future Post by: odolvlobo on April 15, 2013, 05:40:46 AM Pick five economists at random to comment on bitcoin, and you get five economists with random levels of knowledge about the subject making random statements. It is not a very good article.
Title: Re: 2013-4-14 Tech Crunch - How Five Real Economists Think About Bitcoin’s Future Post by: Bitcoinpro on April 15, 2013, 06:54:26 AM is coin is good
Title: Re: 2013-4-14 Tech Crunch - How Five Real Economists Think About Bitcoin’s Future Post by: zeroday on April 15, 2013, 06:24:37 PM At a time when those PhD and economists were talking with a straight face about the absurdity of bitcoin, I was silently stocking it and storing in my wallet.
Now I have all my debts completely paid off and continue enjoying my life as free and independent person. Title: Re: 2013-4-14 Tech Crunch - How Five Real Economists Think About Bitcoin’s Future Post by: RodeoX on April 15, 2013, 06:29:35 PM Academic scholars study what has happened. We do things that happen.
Why should I care what they think about the past? Title: Re: 2013-4-14 Tech Crunch - How Five Real Economists Think About Bitcoin’s Future Post by: grondilu on April 15, 2013, 06:36:06 PM But what if a sovereign state was to issue an algorithm-based currency? Would that drive fiat money out of business? At least they could issue a currency with a total transparency. I mean, a currency whose total amount in circulation could be verified by anyone at any time. That could almost deter me from bitcoin. Title: Re: 2013-4-14 Tech Crunch - How Five Real Economists Think About Bitcoin’s Future Post by: StarfishPrime on April 15, 2013, 06:38:26 PM Next up: "How Five Real Photographers Think About Digital Photography's Future"
Title: Re: 2013-4-14 Tech Crunch - How Five Real Economists Think About Bitcoin’s Future Post by: Mike Christ on April 15, 2013, 06:39:22 PM Next up: "How Five Traditional Artists Think About Digital Artistry's Future" Title: Re: 2013-4-14 Tech Crunch - How Five Real Economists Think About Bitcoin’s Future Post by: zeroday on April 15, 2013, 07:24:58 PM Some time ago they insisted that the Earth is flat and the Sun and Moon are revolving around it.
History repeats... Title: Re: 2013-4-14 Tech Crunch - How Five Real Economists Think About Bitcoin’s Future Post by: n8rwJeTt8TrrLKPa55eU on April 16, 2013, 12:38:04 AM Next up: "How Five Real Photographers Think About Digital Photography's Future" :D Alternatively, 5 salesmen from IBM's mainframe division opining about PCs in 1981. |