re: Bitcoin Casinos Release 2012 Earnings

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Because gambling sites don't ever cheat, right?

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The beauty of bitcoin gambling sites is that depending on the game, they are provably fair, thanks to the blockchain.

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If you get your hard-drive fried

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There are many ways to protect yourself from this, such as: trusting a third party (like people trust banks now), backing up your private key(s), printing your private key(s), using seeded wallets, etc.

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in a foreign country where they drop the firewall

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yes, admittedly totalitarianism is a threat to bitcoin

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They can't be used in any real sense

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They are being used in a very real sense as I type this. And the economy continues to grow every month. I don't know why you'd make a statement like that.

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Their usefulness is derived from their uselessness, and that's what will keep them fenced in on the periphery for a long, long time to come.

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I strongly disagree with you.