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How to Get People to Buy Into a Cryptocurrency

No bickqoin, since it's a public ledger, you can actually see if there's any funny business going on. The lack of privacy in bickuin is a security measure, but here, no one would ever know. So the challenge is, how do you get people to buy into a system that has this, like, major vulnerability? "You have to trust people in a way that's completely existentially defining of the currency"

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