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Old 10-18-2011, 06:26 PM  
Serge Litehead
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one thing i don't get is that most bitards were gold bugs previously and rallied against a currency backed by nothing, but for bitcoin to be backed by nothing is somehow ok now?
As we concluded above in the thread, any currency is backed by trust and or faith. As long people are willing to trade with it, it exists as a form of money. There is nothing else backing currencies other than people using it. No guaranties that the value you get for a dollar or anything else will be the same in the future (with Bitcoin it maybe possible after most of bitcoins have been produced, the value may start to inflate)
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