Just went to my bank, waited 25 mins in line to pull out $9,000…. The teller says she can only give me $2,000 as they don’t have much cash. I ask to speak to the manager, the manager and I negotiate for 10 mins; and she can give me $4,500 absolute maximum. People talk about bitcoin transaction take to long. But not as long as waiting in a bank line…...

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Peter Schiff: Gold has an actual value because of its real-world usage. And because of scarcity, of course, but that's a secondary trait. It has to be combined with the real-world usage and the chemical properties of gold in order for it to have any actual intrinsic value. My remarks: Only 11% of the annually produced gold is used for industrial purposes,...

How many times I hear people say this unironically is just bewildering. submitted by /u/GeorgePakaw [link] [comments]

Particularly for the Bitcoin maximalists, do you believe that Bitcoin is perfect and could not be improved? If you do feel that Bitcoin is perfect in its current form, do you see the network congestion (such as what we experienced on the day of the halving and the days following it) as a necessary thing that we will all just accept sometimes as a natural...

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