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From gold to paper to digital existence to nothingness…

Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme—the Internet’s favorite currency will collapse. Slate – ERIC POSNER – April 11, 2013 An even more fundamental problem with bitcoins, and indeed any private currency, is that there is no way to limit its supply. … more

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In Gold We Trust

Forty years ago, Nixon did away with the gold standard, and the value of the dollar was left to imagination, soaring high up into the sky like a hot air balloon, but the fire has gone out, and the balloon … more

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