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I hope people understand that the success of bitcoin speculation in no way demonstrates bitcoin's practicality as a currency. A currency doesn't benefit from being the subject of speculation - it benefits from having a stable value so you can just use it to buy and sell stuff.

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Currencies (and other assets) benefit from liquidity: someone willing to buy it when you want to sell and to sell when you want to buy. It can be difficult to distinguish beneficial market-making activity (which still involves turning a profit) from harmful speculation, regardless of the way it's described by the person doing it.

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