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Frankly I think the outcomes of adopting Bitcoin as a legal currency would be wildly different from the picture you're painting.

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We are going to find out.

Probably not. What basis do you have to think that any government, let alone all of them, are going to adapt it?

It doesn't matter what they do. That's the great thing about bitcoin. No-one is forcing you to use it. If you don't think it suits your requirements, don't use it.

This seems like a non sequitur if we're discussing it being a "legal currency", by which I meant one you pay your taxes in.

I have no problem spending in whatever currency, whenever required, for whatever purpose, and keeping my savings in bitcoin.

That's dodging the question.

He said : > > What basis do you have to think that any government, let alone all of them, are going to adapt it?

I said : > It doesn't matter what they do.

They can adopt it, or not adopt it. It makes no difference whatsoever.

Notice you could only make this "summary" by skipping most of the beats in the conversation. Also, I'd say it actually matters tremendously whether Bitcoin becomes legal tender somewhere or remains a marginal element of the world economy that only a handful of true believers buy anything other than weed with.

I'm off to the pub to buy a beer this very second, on this rainy sunday afternoon. And I'll be using my bitcoin debit card to buy them. I can buy about twice as many as I would otherwise be able to, given the value of bitcoin increasing since the money was placed into my bitcoin account.

You should try it. It works really well. And beer is delicious.

Would you give it a rest with the beer stuff? If that is what makes it a real currency then a gift card to the liquor store is just as relevant. And the fact that the USD exchange rate changing immediately means you can buy more stuff makes the opposite point of the one you're trying to make.

Buy gift cards if you like. I'll use bitcoin. Let's compare notes in a year.

Having another delicious beer right now on my bitcoin debit card. It has been a good day.

Why not put a $10,000 bet into escrow right now, since you're so confident on Bitcoin being used as a currency a year from now?

Where you say 'bet', I say 'adopt'. I have adopted crypto as my store of value reference. It's working out quite well.

When I say bet, I mean bet. It's a way to back what you're saying. Your using semantics to dodge further proves your repeated comments are just hot air.

Talk about missing the point.

https://imgur.com/a/vmdbW

It tastes real enough.

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