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Originally Posted by The Brickie
Excuse me, but what's a bitcoin?
It's an electronic currency.
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Originally Posted by Da33le
I think it's so creeps can buy suspect things online without their banks knowing.
That and afaik the inventors/origins of it wanted it to expand at a consistent and predictable rate bc they were sick of the Fed messing with the money supply in what I guess what they thought were unpredictable and counterproductive ways. Which is what makes these wild fluctuations so ironically hilarious.