Show lesseven if you have physical gold in your hand..it's value also goes up or down everyday...so what's your point exactly? and the value of bitcoin is in the fact that it's decentralized currency... "you can always trade coins with a friend directly over the blockchain, or store it in a local wallet, without the permission of any third party..A user of fiat is always forced to utilize a centralized service. A user of Bitcoin is never forced to utilize a centralized service. (..) And this ability to opt out, while it may seem modest, enables wonderful things to happen, for the discipline of the marketplace can be realized. Consider: since every CoinBase user can opt out and leave the platform, this presents a natural check on CoinBase's ability to act with impropriety, and makes coercion impossible. Compare this to the model of a bank, which is able to burden its customers to a far more significant degree because it knows that if the customers want to participate in a meaningful way in the financial system, they have to use a bank and its associated fiat currency system." read the rest at the source: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitcoin-truly-decentralized-yes-important-1421967133/
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