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Trace Mayer took the time to discuss Bitcoin and silver with GoldSilverBitcoin.
TM: Hello and welcome to the Run to Gold Podcast. I’ve got with us special guest Justin O’Connell of GoldSilverBitcoin. One Thing I admire about you is you’ve got an open mind. We’ve got some people in the gold and silver niches who don’t have open minds, whether it is Chris Duane who has been bad-mouthing Bitcoin for two years and continues to badmouth it or people who think they can just ignore it like James Turk at GoldMoney. What do you think is driving BTC?
GSB: Well, I think first and foremost it’s the internet. Everyone believes in the Internet. Bitcoin is a microchasm of the Internet that can actually lead it in new directions. Google is going to try to shutdown websites that provide links for users to copyrighted material. They are going to do this the same way they did with WikiLeaks, through a “financial blockade.” WikiLeaks got around that with BTC, and The Pirate Bays will do the same.
Bitcoin functions as not only a currency, but also a payment network for that currency. Bitcoin is an intriguing technical feat.
It is both a digital currency unit and a global payment network through which one can send and receive the Bitcoin currency units.
For those long time purchasers of precious metals, understanding what is fundamentally money and the difference between it and currency, is easy.
Precious metals have been money throughout history.
Their luster is desirable to all peoples throughout the world regardless of culture, education, or any other demographic that one can find.
Precious metals are of course “precious” meaning that they are limited in their availability and the enormous time and resources required in order for one to be able to attain these metals.
Bitcoin too is money because it contains all the aspects of money that precious metals do.
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