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Are Bitcoins the Future of Currency?

Published on Feb 13, 2013

If you’ve ever played Team Fortress 2, you know how valuable hats are. To those who haven’t: yes, HATS! If a community agrees on the value of something, then that thing can become a currency, to exchange for other goods. Just like american dollar bills (or euros, yen, or any other currency), or… bitcoins. Bitcoins are an online currency worth over $200,000,000, and though they are just 1s and 0s, some think that this is the future of money. On the other hand… mo bitcoins mo problems.

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    I have said this my entire life. I just never thought to make a video of it. That is, that money as we know it, is...
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  10. cory-doctorow reblogged this from memejacker and added:
    this dude called homestuck ‘the internet’s finnegan’s wake’ or something
  11. pyramidslayer reblogged this from memejacker and added:
    bitcoins are the ulysses of the future
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    Bitcoins be da future. My baby be investing. LOOOL
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