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The article and BTC got a pasting - I left this :
There are some remarkable bright and astute people who are watching and at the very least, taking an interest in Bitcoin.
At the US senate hearings concerning digital currencies last week, the US senate and various US security and crime departments refused to condemn it and were relatively positive about this being a possible future benefit to the world, offering new ways of storing wealth and transacting for goods and services.
It is not a Ponzi scheme and involves some of the finest technological minds on the planet working at making it better all the time.
Money itself is illusory and is printed by governments on a whim, so it stands up as arguably more solid than regular currencies as it has a finite supply and is a very secure and traceable (if not transaction reversible) form of value exchange.
It is impossible to send a £10 note over the internet, but you can send a bitcoin. Not a promise of one like with banking, but it actually transfers from one holder to another.
If you think that the internet will not have its own currency, ok - go ahead and don't even think about digital ways of value exchange, it does not take too much imagination to see it makes sense there should be ways that are better than the ones offered by banks we have.
If you do think this might evolve new systems more suited to our lives, with a way of cheaply transferring real value to each other in minutes, around the globe, into any currency system - with extremely low costs... well, why not stop, think and maybe research a little.
I did and I am an economist and yes, I do have Bitcoins - not too many, but a few - I personally think this is a game changing technological advance.
If Twitter can sell shares with no profit ever made, for billions of dollars - why dismiss a technology that is not merely 'an app' but a whole new exchange system?
Sneer if you wish, but it makes no sense not to be well informed before you comment.
I have made my mind up that this (or something like it) may well be the future of transactions and, yep - I am in.
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