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> Although it was originally intended to be cash it actually now is used as a "store of wealth"

It's also terrible at that. Bitcoin is down by something like half off its peak. The odds of me losing money to "government intervention" if I'm not actively criming, are quite low. Certainly well under 50%.

> Bitcoin works because you can technically have your wealth memorized.

If you are having to reach for increasingly absurd fantasy scenarios to justify something that was supposed to have thoroughly quotidian users, maybe you should take that as a sign?

> because you have ideas which they do not agree with

Oh, that's who's using bitcoin the most? Philosophers and the like? I had no idea.

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