But then what will you do with your numbers?
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You trade them to other people who need guaranteed portability
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Replying to @romanungern_ @MeesTeab
But what are you really transferring?
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The ability to move wealth in situations where no other way is possible
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They are, if they enable circumvention of capital controls
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Replying to @romanungern_ @MeesTeab
But they only enable that to the extent people are interested in buying numbers. People have no independent use for these numbers
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I don't think you understand what I'm saying, bitcoin functionally has value because it allows you to walk a billion $ through US customs
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What do you do with it on the other end? Trade it to someone else who needs to do the same thing
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That's literally why bitcoin exists
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Problem: taking numbers over the border is not taking real wealth over the border. Bitcoin doesn't represent anything in particular
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