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Author Topic: What have the Opium wars anything to do with BTC and China?  (Read 376 times)
katafrag (OP)
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November 28, 2015, 10:11:57 AM
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The British Empire had a huge trade deficit with China so they decided to sell huge amounts of Opium to China even by force.

http://www.britannica.com/topic/Opium-Wars

Are chinese buying btc to get high? Huge volumes , price going back and forth as vendors sell their btc for fiat.

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November 29, 2015, 12:21:33 AM
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The British Empire had a huge trade deficit with China so they decided to sell huge amounts of Opium to China even by force.

http://www.britannica.com/topic/Opium-Wars

Are chinese buying btc to get high? Huge volumes , price going back and forth as vendors sell their btc for fiat.

Nope, opium wars have nothing to do with BTC.
This is history and irrelevant to BTC.

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