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"Can you say, have BTC (virtual currency) if it can't be touched or smelled etc? And if it dumps in the future to zero....did it ever 'really' exist or was it just
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That's a good one especially when you realise that 'bitcoin' as a coin, doesn't even exist in a digital form. There's no string of ones and zeroes you could point out and say "there it is! there's my bitcoin". Only entries in a ledger...
Consequently, it's probably more accurate to refer to it as 'imaginary' currency rather than 'digital', although that'd be an awful marketing move...