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		graeme on May 30, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: It's time for us in the tech world to speak out ab... You’re going to need a bit more evidence on the “criminals love gold” point. Your thailand example just shows people will scam for small, valuable, fungible things. Gold didn’t have a rep as the hub of black market transactions before bitcoin.

daniel-cussen on May 31, 2021 | [–]

Exactly, scammers love small, valuable, fungible things, and gold and bitcoin are both.

alfarisi17296 on May 31, 2021 | [–]

No it did not, but art did and still does. A lot of art in the future will have a non-fungible identity on chain. It's starting and will only grow rapidly.

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