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"not being able" is just another way of saying "stranded" again.

Please read up on the details of this adventure and you'll come to realize that whoever is putting this phrasing into the media is trying to lie to you!


How can you possibly say it has no fundamentals?

Here are some use cases that give it a non-zero value:

It competes with Western Union for money transfers.

It provides ways to transfer money to places and for things the US government doesn't approve of.


Those are uses.

They aren't fundamentals, e.g.:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_analysis

Money transfers aren't setting the value of crypto. They don't meaningfully affect the supply and demand, since the goal of a transfer is generally to hold the crypto for as short of a period as possible, to minimize price fluctuation risk -- so supply and demand are balanced without changing the price.


> It provides ways to transfer money to places and for things the US government doesn't approve of.

You can just say “facilitates crime”, it’s easier and isn’t doublespeak


That’s circular. Those use cases only work if it has value. If they’re the only reason it has value in the first place then it’s a house of cards.


You can pin yourself to the top of Whatsapp and write to yourself. Explain that to her. It's what I do and it's been phenomenal.


Yeah but you're still limited to the chat mode - you can't consume the data in any other way. With a bot, you could provide some sort of other interface - either via bot commands, or an alternative web view, with fancy exports etc.


It could just mean he never tried to analyze it.


You don't have to limit that first statement to telecoms.


A lot more people would be interested in bidding for a domain name than for a company that owns a domain name.

The domain name should be auctioned off separately but the bankruptcy court is more interested in completing the task in the easiest way possible for them instead of doing things right.


It cuts through all the SEO junk. Ask it for a recipe, for example. Night and day UX compared to a recipe site.


Have you adjusted for inflation?


I've noticed that sometimes Google Flights finds a cheaper international fare if using the airlines site in the local currency instead of USD. Clicking the button at the end in Google Flights takes care of all the settings to get you to the price they showed.

I've also noticed Google Flights prices being outdated sometimes.


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