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<p>[QUOTE="calcol, post: 8225954, member: 77639"]99+% of my financial transactions are digital. So, hardly hand-holdable. But they’re transacted in dollars, euros or pounds. Not in any digital currency.</p><p><br /></p><p>I’m not a fan of digital currencies. Buying them with “real” money is just a form of currency speculation. Worst problem is lack of stability. Folks want their medium of exchange and value to be reasonably stable. Digital currencies hardly have stability.</p><p><br /></p><p>In addition, there is a flaw in the way digital currencies were constructed … namely, they disappear eventually because there is no renewal process for lost currency. The loss is mainly through folks losing or forgetting passwords or disappearing or dying with no one else knowing their password. I’ve seen estimates that as much as 20% of BitCoin is gone already. Mining only brings the total amount of BitCoin generated closer to its absolute cap of 21M. Eventually only a token <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> amount will be left or perhaps none.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cal[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="calcol, post: 8225954, member: 77639"]99+% of my financial transactions are digital. So, hardly hand-holdable. But they’re transacted in dollars, euros or pounds. Not in any digital currency. I’m not a fan of digital currencies. Buying them with “real” money is just a form of currency speculation. Worst problem is lack of stability. Folks want their medium of exchange and value to be reasonably stable. Digital currencies hardly have stability. In addition, there is a flaw in the way digital currencies were constructed … namely, they disappear eventually because there is no renewal process for lost currency. The loss is mainly through folks losing or forgetting passwords or disappearing or dying with no one else knowing their password. I’ve seen estimates that as much as 20% of BitCoin is gone already. Mining only brings the total amount of BitCoin generated closer to its absolute cap of 21M. Eventually only a token ;) amount will be left or perhaps none. Cal[/QUOTE]
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