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Personal Finance and Investing

doc03

(37,715 posts) Fri Jan 22, 2021, 08:20 PM Jan 2021

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I have seen Bitcoin ATM machines lately. Can someone explain why I would [View all]

want to buy Bitcoins rather than just use a debit or credit card. I don't understand what the purpose of them is.

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I have seen Bitcoin ATM machines lately. Can someone explain why I would [View all] doc03 Jan 2021 OP

seperate you from your actual money? nt msongs Jan 2021 #1

What I am seeing is another bubble like the 2000 .com bubble and the 2008 derivatives doc03 Jan 2021 #2

A nice convenient way to rid yourself of your money. 5X Jan 2021 #3

It's just another currency. Why exchange dollars for euro or pesos? unblock Jan 2021 #4

More privacy like money laundering and tax evasion? nt doc03 Jan 2021 #5

Possibly, but I think people make too much of that. unblock Jan 2021 #6

For many BTC is not used for transactions masmdu Jan 2021 #7

Apparently nobody is worrying about the enormous amount of electricity progree Jan 2021 #8

Not true with ADA as it is proof of "stake" masmdu Jan 2021 #9

I've seen videos of respectable older and prominent investors bucolic_frolic Jan 2021 #10

To get around sanctions, Iran embraced Bitcoin. Now with polluted skies and grid failures, progree Jan 2021 #11

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