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		sanskritabelt on Nov 12, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: $4.1m goes missing as Chinese bitcoin trading plat... Can bitcoin guarantee weeks of "stable purchasing-power preservation"?

dualogy on Nov 12, 2013 [–]

And how does that question in any way relate to my little digression?

sanskritabelt on Nov 12, 2013 | [–]

You brought up the failure to guarantee "decades of stable purchasing-power" as a failure of g.v.rnm.nt and actual money, which is a claim that you think this is a problem solved by bitcoin.

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