> Dollars are similarly useless in Saudi Arabia. This is simply outright wrong. According to Wikipedia, the last arms deal that Saudi Arabia struck with the U

> Dollars are similarly useless in Saudi Arabia. This is simply outright wrong. According to Wikipedia, the last arms deal that Saudi Arabia struck with the US was, that alone, around $350 billion. That's more than most of the nation's GDPs. Trying to put a Ponzi scheme such as Bitcoin on par with the US dollar is either an entirely clueless assertion or a disingenuous claim made in line with all the other pump-and-dump schemes that plague the so called crypto currencies.