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    1. Nick Szabo  🔑‏ @NickSzabo4 Feb 20
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      Investors who leave their cryptocurrency in the custody of an exchange are like people who invest in Starbucks even though they don't drink their coffee. They might make good technical money, but their actual understanding of use cases and value propositions is questionable.

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    2. Stingy Life‏ @_StingyLife Feb 20
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      Replying to @NickSzabo4

      I think you're entirely wrong. Crypto is a belief system just like physical money. The storage of it will reside with exchanges and banks. Most people don't want to maintain their private keys they simply want to transfer money from x to z...

      3 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
    3. Nick Szabo  🔑‏ @NickSzabo4 Feb 20
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      Replying to @_StingyLife

      You don't understand what you are doing. Sell your crypto and go back to investing in the banks that you apparently know and like quite a bit more than you do cryptocurrency.

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    4. Stingy Life‏ @_StingyLife Feb 20
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      Can you elaborate on the benefit of holding your own keys? IMO its simple. I fully believe currency will be digital and decentralized but the storage part is just a service (utility). I trust @binance who can allocate more time and resources at safely protecting keys

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    5. Nick ╭ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ╮‏ @phraudsta Feb 20
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      Replying to @_StingyLife @NickSzabo4 @binance

      the key word there is "trust".

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      Nick Szabo  🔑‏ @NickSzabo4 Feb 20
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      Replying to @phraudsta @_StingyLife @binance

      Indeed if you trust crypto custodians, who are rookies and often loose peoples' crypto, then you should be much more trusting of banks who have far more experience and are far more reliable. So then why put your money in crypto instead of banks?

      6:30 PM - 20 Feb 2019
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        2. Linus Joensson‏ @NetLijon Feb 20
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          Lmao, you really thought the value proposition of bitcoin was that banks can’t be trusted to store money? This is gold.

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        4. Linus Joensson‏ @NetLijon Feb 21
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          No. The service of storing wealth for others is *not* threatened. This is in *no way* what Bitcoin distrupts. On the contrary, it’s a great opportunity for old or new banks because Bitcoin presents both new challenges and possibilities for storage.

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        1. Stingy Life‏ @_StingyLife Feb 20
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          Replying to @NickSzabo4 @phraudsta @binance

          Because banks don't offer #BTC otherwise I would. Hopefully they do soon and guarantee security. It's simply an investment. #SOV Fiat money will continue to be diluted. Sure you should hold some private wallets I do too but majority of my money is on exchanges.

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        2. Jordan MacLeod‏ @newcurrency Feb 20
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          By banks being “more reliable” you must be speaking strictly of trusting that one can safely access funds in the future? As opposed to their using our deposits to create trillions in leveraged bets and systemic failures that has brought Western civilization to its knees?

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        3. Stingy Life‏ @_StingyLife Feb 20
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          Your idea of a future bank is completely wrong. Storage and enabling easier exchange is the future of banking using crypto as the value. Banks will get smaller and more niche specific

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