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Which one of these properties of cryptocurrency is imaginary?

  Coins cant be faked or duplicated
  No one can create them at will
  They can be transmitted quickly/globally with low fees (excluding bitcoin of course) 
  You can store them yourself, no bank needed
  Sending huge sums of money is no problem
  Relatively simple design, 8 page white paper
  Has worked as designed for almost a decade
Seems like crypto has a lot unique intrinsic value that surpasses traditional currencies to date.

The only thing imaginary is your imagination. Crypto is very real. Even people on an island would eventually find a common denominator in which to store value which has many of the same properties above.

parent pixie_ 8 years ago

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