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Bitcoin has a just as relevant, or more so, actual use in buying drugs and frowned upon things on the internet, escaping government restrictions on money, etc.

• LanceH 7y ago
  Gold has those same uses but at an international level and is generally approved of. The gold may never actually move, but ownership will transfer between countries.
  • JohnJamesRambo 7y ago
    But you have to use a middleman or intermediary. The genius of bitcoin was when Satoshi removed that and solved the double-spending problem in a decentralized way. >Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
    • ickelbawd 7y ago
      Except that bitcoin relies on a whole network of middlemen to prove the validity of that transaction. Without miners you have no transaction.