Quote from: em3rgentOrdr on June 09, 2011, 04:22:54 PM

Quote from: srb123 on June 09, 2011, 11:01:09 AM

Here's Gavin talking to ABC Radio's excellent PM Show in Australia.

http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2011/s3240179.htm

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GAVIN ADRESEN: Bitcoin is really a pure money. It's a store of value and a means of exchange and that's all it is. It's almost a plutonic ideal of what money is, in that there is nothing backing it beyond the fact that it's useful as a money.

+1. Very insightful. Indeed, bitcoin is the ~~plutonic~~ platonic ideal of what money is...

correction: I just realized that I just copied abc.net.au misspelling of "platonic"...

Not quite. The platonic ideal of money would keep private transactions between individuals private NOT make them explicitly a matter of public record.

Very big difference.

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