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Topic: 2013-4-14 Tech Crunch - How Five Real Economists Think About Bitcoin’s Future (Read 1037 times)

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Alternatively, 5 salesmen from IBM's mainframe division opining about PCs in 1981.

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Some time ago they insisted that the Earth is flat and the Sun and Moon are revolving around it.
History repeats...

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But what if a sovereign state was to issue an algorithm-based currency? Would that drive fiat money out of business?


At least they could issue a currency with a total transparency.  I mean, a currency whose total amount in circulation could be verified by anyone at any time.  That could almost deter me from bitcoin.
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The revolution will be monetized!
Academic scholars study what has happened. We do things that happen.

Why should I care what they think about the past? 
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At a time when those PhD and economists were talking with a straight face about the absurdity of bitcoin, I was silently stocking it and storing in my wallet.
Now I have all my debts completely paid off and continue enjoying my life as free and independent person.
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Pick five economists at random to comment on bitcoin, and you get five economists with random levels of knowledge about the subject making random statements. It is not a very good article.
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LTC -> BTC -> Silver!
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This question got me very excited:

But what if a sovereign state was to issue an algorithm-based currency? Would that drive fiat money out of business?

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