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j"19HxigV4QyBv3tHpQVcUEQyq1pzZVdoAutM~<div class="post"><div class="quoteheader"><a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=845.msg10022#msg10022">Quote from: fresno on August 18, 2010, 03:40:11 AM</a></div><div class="quote">"the US FRN is akin to a national stock with a reverse dividend,.." ROTFLOL!<br/><br/>I challenge this group to think simple!<br/><br/>Bitcoin is something we use, but Bitcoin is not the use! It is simply a machine. Don't give it names it doesn't deserve.<br/></div><br/>Bingo! I've been following this thread and others thinking to myself "why the money obsession?". Even those that argue on different economic philosophies compare to money, use money, use the lack of money, money, money, money...<br/><br/>I compare Bitcoins to beans... when we played cards as kids we used beans as measure of wins / losses. We didn't trade it for money, we didn't play for "make believe money", we played for beans. It worked because we all agreed that beans where the game measure, and because there was a limited supply of them (in our game table, that is).<br/><br/>If we had some special engineered beans instead of Bitcoins, that took a full hour to produce a batch and for some quantic weirdness could only be produced one batch at a time in the whole universe, but anyone could try and grow them, we could use those instead of BTCs, with the obvious caveat of not being virtual, of course... They wouldn't be money, they would pretty much not have any value except for what you and your peers agree it had. It's the same. If I think you whispering 545 decimals from pi to my ear is worth me giving you a deed to my house, does that make pi, or it's value, a currency?</div> text/html