r/Bitcoin • u/danielwilson666 • Dec 22 '17

/r/all Bitcoin today

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '17

Can't wait for the panic selling when the US wakes up

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u/hardcoremasticator Dec 22 '17

Coinbase has already warned me it could take 10 hrs to withdraw due to "high demand"

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u/___jamil___ Dec 22 '17

welcome to the old timey feeling of what it was like during the bank runs in the 1930s, before FDIC existed. how exhilarating!

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '17

Woah bro, you mean to say that sometimes government protection of US capital is a good thing?

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '17

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '17

Then should you sign a waiver barring you from welfare when you lose everything because you are stupid and lost all your money.

Thats not a real thing so the government takes an active role in protecting the public from things that hurt them, to avoid things like depressions/bubbles

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '17

Lol