Comment Re:That's how money works - a shared hallucination (Score 1) 344
"Any medium of exchange is just as much a shared hallucination as bitcoin..."
commodity based you can at least barter with or consume; in general you are correct and we agree.
they all have trade off's. i'll take decentralized, secure (potentially anonymous) Bitcoin and fend off the hackers while others pay banking intermediaries high fees for transactions performed at their leisure, presumably with less risk.
to each their own...