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Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure (www.dlnews.com)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Original purpose of BTC is to prevent government from controlling and inflating the supply of money. You can't make 1000 BTC from thin air and put it into circulation. There is no company or CEO that controls it, it's code is maintained by open community and network secured by globally distributed miners and nodes. That's regarding BTC, other cryptocurrency nah

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

One can buy weed with crypto. I can't do that with a bank card.

I guess, not everyone wants a centralised currency

[–] jaemo 3 points 1 week ago

Canadian belly laugh

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I buy weed with a bank card all the time.