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What other purposes is it used for?

• efdee 9y ago
  Gambling.
  • posterboy 9y ago
    gambling is a good, a bad good, mostly, but nevertheless.
• deleted 9y ago
  [deleted]
• deadmetheny 9y ago
  Buying drugs and ransomware.
• disordinary 9y ago
  Right now it's only use apart from being an investment medium is to convert currency to alt coins, alt coins is where the innovation is and where the real use of distributed ledgers come into play.
• colordrops 9y ago
  International money transfer and store of value that can't be meddled with by another entity.
  • johncolanduoni 9y ago
    Various governments have done a pretty good job of meddling with it thus far.
    • colordrops 9y ago
      How exactly have they meddled with it?
      • MarkMc 9y ago
        By threatening to send people who trade Bitcoin to jail: https://www.coindesk.com/bangladesh-outlaw-bitcoin-jail/ https://www.coindesk.com/bangladesh-outlaw-bitcoin-jail/
        • colordrops 9y ago
          That's meddling with the person, not the transaction. The protocol is unassailable. Anyway, if you really want there are mechanisms for anonymous transactions over BTC.