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«they buy it and what you holding increases in value, then tell them to do the same.»

Literally the same happens to any investment: tell people to buy stock X, time share Y, precious metal Z, that it's awesome, so it gains value, etc

The fact is Bitcoin/crypto is revolutionary. For example it allows merchants to cut down on fraud, since a payment received in BTC is irreversible, so chargeback fraud is impossible. It enables instantaneous B2B international payments. It allows escaping your country inflationary currency. It's censorship-resistant. It empowers the unbanked & underbanked.



It one-sidedly favors the merchant, though.




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