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New report by some economic folks aren't impressed with bitcoins and cryptocurrency.

Serious question: Aside from criminals, who really uses cryptocurrency?

Leisher wrote: New report by some economic folks aren't impressed with bitcoins and cryptocurrency.

Serious question: Aside from criminals, who really uses cryptocurrency?

Wannabe criminals?

Like the article says, I think it's more of an investment now for most people. I always had trouble seeing it as "the currency of the future". I do think the technology in it will end up in a lot of places though.

DJ yells a lot and boxer that is a fraud get busted for cryptocurrency fraud.

Like cryptocurrency, their punishment is basically meaningless.

Like any pyramid scheme, it was only a matter of time.

Leisher wrote: CEO of exchange dies and was the only person with access to accounts. Guess what they found in the accounts.

Good thing cryptocoins have integrated ledgers so everything can be visible to everyone /s

He missed it by not calling it Shatcoin.

Crypto currency up in value.

Seems like it's being driven by speculators.

Leisher wrote: Crypto currency up in value.

Seems like it's being driven by speculators.

Since the beginning of crypto.

My understanding is that a lot of the big time investing firms have opened up their trading desks on crypto currency after months and months of saying that they would never trade in them in order to drive down the price for when they started trading in them.