Eeeediots guide to bitcoins

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but if they wanted to they could cash-in and take a lump of gold.
Thats a fiction.

Take for example leverage. You are a saver, you deposit £1000 in a bank, you imagine the bank may use that £1000 to lend to someone and they make (say) 5% interest, and they give you 3% back, they keep 2%. Not how it works. They take your £1000 and lend it to more than one person at he same time, in theory there is no limit to how many times they can lend the same money, but in practice governments apply rules to limit this leverage ratio (the number of people the £1000 is leant to at the same time). So lets say they lend it to 4 people, each pay it back, so the bank makes 20% in total, pays you your 3% and keeps 17%. Isnt money fun. Now you may ask how did the £1000 turn into £4000, its just did, because they said it did, the number were written down and the money came into existences as if by magic.

Money is not energy, it can be created at will if you have the books that keep the total.

The people who are bitcoin millionaires like any other commodity are the people who got in early, those who took risks and got lucky.

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Seems to me like an alternative black economy with no government regulation.
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When ever something dodgy or illegal is involved, so are Bitcoins. When you associate with shit it tends to make you smell a bit to observers.

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If someone said to me I want to buy an amp with Bitcoins how would I do that.

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CN211276 wrote: Fri Jul 21, 2017 8:59 am Seems to me like an alternative black economy with no government regulation.

Its a currency, what its used for is the economy. This is what freedom looks like IMHO.

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Dr Bunsen Honeydew wrote: Fri Jul 21, 2017 9:21 am When ever something dodgy or illegal is involved, so are Bitcoins. When you associate with shit it tends to make you smell a bit to observers.

Again, its just a currency, the above sentence will make as much sense if you replace bitcoin with money.

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In the end, there is barely any difference between Bitcoin and any currency.
1. Its secure
2. its anonymous
3. Its distributed
4. transactions are free or very low cost
5. there is no central control

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Dr Bunsen Honeydew wrote: Fri Jul 21, 2017 9:30 am If someone said to me I want to buy an amp with Bitcoins how would I do that.
https://bitcoin.org/en/getting-started

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Well that website was obviously put there by somebody, are they the bosses.

Have you got any ? how did you do it ?

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Don't get me wrong Nick, I am trying to work out if it a scam, a cul-de-sac, or the future.

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