I'm still between the two. One thing is that you can buy this so-called "play money", but the generating aspect of it is still keeping me from saying no.
But, after all, it's a game that is worth playing.
Topic: Anyone feel like BTC is like play money? (Read 4118 times)
If you can buy gold,silver,diamonds, cash with BTC........there is NOTHING about those things that would make BTC play money. BTC is REAL money and should be treated as such.
btc is bigger than just money
Lol, emotions run pretty high with some people in the bitcoin talk forum.
Name the first currency that pops to your head when you see this image:
Was it bitcoin?
No. It was "Monopoly Money". Was it bitcoin?
You think this is a motherfucking game?
I came to bitcoin when I had a need for transferring some money and the international transfer fees were just ridiculous. It turned out that in this case, it would have been too complicated to exchange fiat into bitcoin on my side and vice versa on the recipient's side, so we didn't actually follow it through.
So practically speaking, it's been play money for me up to now and for the foreseeable future. My employer won't pay me in BTC, there are no things that I need and could buy with BTC that I couldn't get with less effort for fiat money. So right now it's just an educational thing (learning a lot about economy and psychology on the way) and some small-scale gambling with amounts comparable to those I'd wager in sports bets with friends. I'd probably do small side jobs for BTC (basically coding for fun and getting a token of appreciation) but currently the amount of available spare time is zilch...
Onkel Paul
So practically speaking, it's been play money for me up to now and for the foreseeable future. My employer won't pay me in BTC, there are no things that I need and could buy with BTC that I couldn't get with less effort for fiat money. So right now it's just an educational thing (learning a lot about economy and psychology on the way) and some small-scale gambling with amounts comparable to those I'd wager in sports bets with friends. I'd probably do small side jobs for BTC (basically coding for fun and getting a token of appreciation) but currently the amount of available spare time is zilch...
Onkel Paul
The only difference between fiat money and play money is the law. BTC on the other hand, has at least proof-of-work behind it and is very practical.
Without the law, all pre-mined fiat currencies would be worthless at once, while BTC would not.
Without the law, all pre-mined fiat currencies would be worthless at once, while BTC would not.
btc may become practical but it sure isnt right now
Yeah bitcoin feels like a game that is fair and worth playing. That is way more then I can say about the fiat currencies game that is rigged from top to bottom.
Name the first currency that pops to your head when you see this image:
Was it bitcoin?
Was it bitcoin?
Using Bitcoin "feels" natural i don't know why but it feels like i've been using it all my life, and NO it does not "feel" like play money
I see it as a huge technological advancement in economic evolution, i like to think of it as the new underlying financial internetwork of humankind.
Night by night this magical cryptographic currency grows and entangles with the world wide web creating the most spectacular currency imaginable !
Quoted feel because it is not a tangible object but you understand my meaning
I see it as a huge technological advancement in economic evolution, i like to think of it as the new underlying financial internetwork of humankind.
Night by night this magical cryptographic currency grows and entangles with the world wide web creating the most spectacular currency imaginable !
Quoted feel because it is not a tangible object but you understand my meaning
I guarantee people who say this sort of thing and the people who come onto these forums regularly to attack Bitcoin are just hoping the price goes down from what they say so they can trade it more themselves in secret 
The reason you feel this way is Bitcoin is worth more, it can do more and you can do more with it and you're free to do with it whatever you want, I know I've really upped my productivity lately because I know now that anything I earn isn't going to devalue itself 100 times over in the next year. No one can take your Bitcoins away from you unless they steal it or hack your computer, not even the government or central banks.
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I've never felt the same giddiness earning fiat that ive felt earning btc. there is something special about it, something different.
The reason you feel this way is Bitcoin is worth more, it can do more and you can do more with it and you're free to do with it whatever you want, I know I've really upped my productivity lately because I know now that anything I earn isn't going to devalue itself 100 times over in the next year. No one can take your Bitcoins away from you unless they steal it or hack your computer, not even the government or central banks.
It will be play money when it gets me playmates.
For now it's just nerds money.
For now it's just nerds money.
Absolutely, bitcoin is just play money. Everybody knows that, who said anything different?
Send me all your play monies ... if you win the game I'll send them right back.
Send me all your play monies ... if you win the game I'll send them right back.
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Bitcoin is god
The only difference between fiat money and play money is the law. BTC on the other hand, has at least proof-of-work behind it and is very practical.
Without the law, all pre-mined fiat currencies would be worthless at once, while BTC would not.
Without the law, all pre-mined fiat currencies would be worthless at once, while BTC would not.
Sure! Do you want to play with me? Just send me a few BTC.
Oh I totally agree. I just cant get over this feeling.
I've never felt the same giddiness earning fiat that ive felt earning btc. there is something special about it, something different.
it just feels weird.
I've never felt the same giddiness earning fiat that ive felt earning btc. there is something special about it, something different.
it just feels weird.
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