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« Reply #360 on: May 29, 2014, 10:09:25 PM »
If more and more large businesses and services start taking bitcoin as payment, will the currency stabilize?

I'm not psychic, Dave.

Those would be the assets specifically tailored to mine bitcoins, and which become redundant in 6 months? Good luck cashing that in.

By assets I meant Bitcoin. The machines themselves cost significantly little compared to the money they create. Using KnC's pricing as a gauge, they've already made their investment back.

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« Reply #361 on: May 29, 2014, 10:12:21 PM »
By assets I meant Bitcoin.

Oh. I usually measure assets according to a stable form of currency.

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« Reply #362 on: May 29, 2014, 10:18:51 PM »
Oh. I usually measure assets according to a stable form of currency.

That would leave you incapable of ever measuring assets.

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« Reply #363 on: May 29, 2014, 10:21:46 PM »
Oh. I usually measure assets according to a stable form of currency.

That would leave you incapable of ever measuring assets.

Incorrect. Lets say my laptop is worth £1000. I can depreciate that over 5 years at £200 a year because I can be reasonably sure the £ won't go bat shit insane.

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« Reply #364 on: May 29, 2014, 10:36:23 PM »
Incorrect. Lets say my laptop is worth £1000. I can depreciate that over 5 years at £200 a year because I can be reasonably sure the £ won't go bat shit insane.

It's a shame you don't know what stability is.

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« Reply #365 on: May 29, 2014, 10:43:23 PM »
Incorrect. Lets say my laptop is worth £1000. I can depreciate that over 5 years at £200 a year because I can be reasonably sure the £ won't go bat shit insane.

It's a shame you don't know what stability is.

We should pick up this conversation in your weekly FT article.

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« Reply #366 on: May 30, 2014, 04:38:05 PM »
http://online.wsj.com/articles/dish-network-to-accept-bitcoin-payments-1401363621

Dish network is rolling out Bitcoin as a payment option.

Good, now Canadians can enjoy US satellite service without the hassle of a US credit card.
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« Reply #367 on: June 06, 2014, 01:53:35 AM »
Bitcoin key to future of online payments: EBay CEO

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101734293

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« Reply #368 on: June 06, 2014, 07:27:17 PM »
Bitcoin key to future of online payments: EBay CEO

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101734293

"I think there are two sides of it, the investment side and the digital currency side,"

What a moron. Either its an investment or its a currency. A currency can't be a highly volatile asset. No one would accept it. Who'd sell a computer on ebay for $1000 to find that by the time they got the money it was only worth $700?

Either its volatile and an investment risk, or its a stable currency. It cannot be both.

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« Reply #369 on: June 06, 2014, 07:48:13 PM »
I agree. Currency traders need to work with millions of dollars to make any potential profit worth the effort.
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« Reply #370 on: June 07, 2014, 12:57:21 AM »
I have no idea what I'm talking about.

Fascinating addition to the thread, Thork. I'm glad we could get it out of the way.

I agree. Currency traders need to work with millions of dollars to make any potential profit worth the effort.

That depends on the currency.


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« Reply #372 on: June 07, 2014, 03:03:32 PM »
Currency traders need to work with millions of dollars to make any potential profit worth the effort.
That's inconsistent with reality. Local currency exchange points are very common in Poland (because of how much the Polish enjoy job tourism, mostly). They need to freeze a few dozen thousand dollars to get things going, but it's a fairly safe business after that.
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« Reply #373 on: June 07, 2014, 03:48:22 PM »
Currency traders need to work with millions of dollars to make any potential profit worth the effort.
That's inconsistent with reality. Local currency exchange points are very common in Poland (because of how much the Polish enjoy job tourism, mostly). They need to freeze a few dozen thousand dollars to get things going, but it's a fairly safe business after that.

True, but what they're trading on is not the fluctuations of a currency but a market need for customers to exchange one currency for another. You probably need a fairly stable currency to do this.

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« Reply #374 on: June 07, 2014, 04:11:05 PM »
You probably need a fairly stable currency to do this.
Well, more stable than Bitcoin, that's for sure.
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« Reply #375 on: June 07, 2014, 04:16:45 PM »
Bitcoin is the perfect currency. You're all just haters.

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« Reply #376 on: June 07, 2014, 07:17:06 PM »
Perfect currency is unstable?  ???
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« Reply #377 on: June 07, 2014, 07:18:10 PM »
I think the real question here is: what the hell is currency?

Imports/exports? If so, if we had a unified world government would currency even be necessary?

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« Reply #378 on: June 07, 2014, 08:51:56 PM »
if we had a unified world government would currency even be necessary?

You still need some kind of abstract means of indicating wealth. Otherwise you're back to swapping sheep for hens for wood for corn for bricks for clothes etc

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« Reply #379 on: June 07, 2014, 08:55:49 PM »
if we had a unified world government would currency even be necessary?

You still need some kind of abstract means of indicating wealth. Otherwise you're back to swapping sheep for hens for wood for corn for bricks for clothes etc

Not if we're the United Federation of Planets.