This is some pretty damning evidence found by fatanut against user Financial_Genius
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https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=643215I wish there's bounty for this for I spent a lot of time to prove my point and this guy has been on the campaign ever since.
I caught Financial_Genius (
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=643215) copy pasting replies.
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When a collectible becomes valuable, it can become money. When bitcoins became valuable, you could take advantage of their excellent system for conducting financial transactions. However, the system remains the same, regardless of how many people participate in it. Therefore, the system itself can not be responsible for those costs which people are investing in bitcoins.
http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-isnt-evil-what-gives-value/ (
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Once the collectible gets some value, it can become money. Once bitcoins became valuable, you could take advantage of the beautiful transfer network. But it always stays the same network: whether a hundred people use it or millions. So the network can't be responsible for any single price that people put on bitcoin.
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Many changes that improve privacy, are under development. For example, efforts to change payment API aims to prevent the sharing of addresses for payment that creates the Association between them. The change addresses, in Bitcoin Core, could be eventually implemented in other wallets. In the graphical user interface can be added to easily request payments, which prevents re-use of addresses. Work is in progress and for the development of other functions, potentially increasing privacy, such as the ability to combine transactions together casual users.
https://bitcoin.org/en/protect-your-privacyMany improvements can be expected in the future to improve privacy. For instance, some efforts are ongoing with the payment messages API to avoid tainting multiple addresses together during a payment. Bitcoin Core change addresses might be implemented in other wallets over time. Graphical user interfaces might be improved to provide user friendly payment request features and discourage addresses reuse. Various work and research is also being done to develop other potential extended privacy features like being able to join random users' transactions together.
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Value as a collector's item (the same principle as the activities of people who are collecting rare metals, stones, shells, stamps, paintings and baseball cards)
http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-isnt-evil-what-gives-value/Value as a collectible, in a similar manner to people collecting rare metals, stones, shells, postal stamps, paintings and baseball cards.
Value, which is based on the fact that other people will consider your collectibles valuable and will want to buy it, thus enriching the previous owner.
http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-isnt-evil-what-gives-value/Value from betting that other people may find these collectibles valuable and thus would have to buy some of them from earlier collectors, thus making them richer.
Gold is valuable for these very reasons. Not because it's shiny (many things too shiny), but because it is rare, durable, mobile and available for collecting.system.
http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-isnt-evil-what-gives-value/Gold is valuable for the exact same reason. Not because it's shiny (many things are), but because it's rare, durable and mobile, and thus can be collected.
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Book your vacation through Expedia . So far, the company only accepts bitcoin to book hotels, but plans to start accepting bitcoin to pay for flights, car hire booking and many other services.
http://readwrite.com/2014/07/04/how-to-spend-bitcoins-in-the-real-world/Book your vacation surreptitiously through Expedia. So far, the travel booking company only accepts Bitcoin payments for hotels, but plans to expand to flights, car rentals and more, a spokesperson told the Wall Street Journal.
Amazon, Target, CVS, and other chain stores don't accept bitcoin directly.
http://readwrite.com/2014/07/04/how-to-spend-bitcoins-in-the-real-world/Amazon, Target, CVS and other chain stores don’t accept Bitcoin directly
Buy wholesale? Wholesale website Overstock has become the first major US retailer accepting bitcoin in December of 2013.
http://readwrite.com/2014/07/04/how-to-spend-bitcoins-in-the-real-world/Looking to buy in bulk? Wholesale site Overstock claimed to be the first major U.S. retailer to accept Bitcoin back in December 2013
and so on.. I guess I've made my point. I think most of his replies are copy pasted in this way. Copy paste different chunks of a single article and then rephrase some words so it cannot be searched easily.
