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Comment by teterphiel

and these applications give people a fuzzy warm feeling that lasts for about a month before it recedes and attention shifts elsewhere.

I have it on good authority that owning bitcoin gives people a very similar kind of feeling and there is nothing wrong with that. humans doing human things.

of course now there's plenty of arbiters of what constitutes proper warm fuzziness, and apparently a new BMW made from aluminium and steel is AAA+, but buying 0.1 of a bitcoin is not.

parent teterphiel 5 years ago

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