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Bitcoin: A flawed currency with a useful application for the Eurozone (2014)

The responses of many to my post on Bitcoin reveal a powerful tendency to underestimate the ill-effects of deflation on a social economy. This tendency to underestimate deflation’s deleterious impact matters beyond debates on Bitcoin per se. For example, in Europe the incapacity of the European Central Bank (ECB) to…
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Jul 3, 2015Bitcoin: A flawed currency with a useful application for the Eurozone (2014) by gws11597

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