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		logifail on Jan 4, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: BadEconomics: Putting $400M of Bitcoin on your com... > It is sorta like money (or can easily be converted to "real" money), an asset, store of value, protocol, and secure network all at once Apart from "protocol" and "secure network" ... this sounds almost how one might have described owning a tulip bulb in the year 1636 :)

ForHackernews on Jan 4, 2021 [–]

Are you kidding? Tulip bulbs make an outstanding protocol: they are self-propagating and they come in 10+ different colors, making them more information-dense than a conventional binary protocol.

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