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El Salvador Abandons Bitcoin as Legal Tender After Failed Experiment (ticotimes.net)

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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 months ago

Violence based currencies are not sustainable in the long term. That's why the petrol-dollar has been steadily decreasing in global reserves. It's why the IMF has to outlaw bitcoin instead of competing with it.