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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>…</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Brent Allsop<br><b>Subject:</b> [ExI] How can people be so blind about Bitcoin and the future?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>Check out this (admittedly now a few months old) article criticizing Bitcoin: Brent Allsop<br><br><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span><a href="http://www.technollama.co.uk/we-need-decentralized-cryptocurrencies-we-just-dont-need-bitcoin">http://www.technollama.co.uk/we-need-decentralized-cryptocurrencies-we-just-dont-need-bitcoin</a><br><br><span style='color:#1F497D'>>>……</span>"The problem is that if the price of a bitcoin is on a steady upward trajectory, then nobody’s actually going to want to <em>spend</em> a Bitcoin on anything. And if everyone’s hoarding their Bitcoins, then the network is actually useless. Then, since it turns out to be useless, you get a crash.<span style='color:#1F497D'>”</span> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Haaahahahahahaaaa… {8^D<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>The silly person. That is what happens when people write articles while stoned. They write comments like the above, or about scenarios where the wife arranges a surprise party and the husband comes into the living room nekkid, that sort of thing.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Brent the real problem I see with btcoin and the other crypto-currencies is that eventually the government will notice and figure out who is using them, and noting the IRS isn’t getting its cut of the action. Governments don’t like that. Ours is wielding power without accountability (Where is Lois Lerner these days? Where is Sarah Hall Ingram? Neither are in jail. Ingram is running the IRS branch in charge of “encouraging” healthy young people into buying overpriced insurance.) <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>For our non-libertarian friends among us, how hard is it to see?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>spike</span><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>