To be clear, I use Bitcoin for legal transactions (not exchanges) somewhat regularly. Would actually be extremely cumbersome to send boosts using gold, funny enough. Probably why people don't do it.
You:
To purchase what, exactly? Or to buy and sell Bitcoin?
So I said I use Bitcoin for legal transactions, gave you and example, and you asked if I used it to buy and sell Bitcoin.... Damn, you really are illiterate.
Apparently so, please, do tell me what that thing is that is worth TRILLIONS, or even just billions?
Moving goalposts. Yawn.
but can't address me having sourced that black markets are worth TRILLIONS from a creditable source like Europol
Again, I did. You're illiterate.
your weird delusions
Again, such as?
"No, it's not mainly used for the drug markets worth trillions that you've proved by Data from Europol"
I never said that. Stop making things up.
it isn't even relevant
It isn't relevant to the claim which is: "Bitcoin is bad so creator is ashamed."
To recap, your argument there is: "Holding Bitcoin indirectly funds crime" -- such a boring take. I'll add it to the pile along with how I'm murdering Gazan babies and burning the planet 🥱.
So I can roll up to the McDonalds drive-thru, ask for a quarter-pounder, and they'll accept a chunk of gold as payment?
Or do I need to exchange it first?
despite you not having a single use for that currency
To be clear, I use Bitcoin for legal transactions (not exchanges) somewhat regularly. Would actually be extremely cumbersome to send boosts using gold, funny enough. Probably why people don't do it.
Meme coins come and go, because they're unreliable. They're unreliable, because there's nothing actually backing them up, much like fiat currency.
Correct. That is true about meme coins.
However, gold has. Because gold is naturally rare.
As does Bitcoin. Maybe you just didn't know that. There is and can only ever be a fixed amount of Bitcoin. You might even be able to eventually travel to other planets and discover more gold there, but you can never discover more Bitcoin.
I can and have shown you data from which you can infer that during this discussion of ours, tens of thousands of illegal transactions have taken place using Bitcoin
refuse to acknowledge any data or any information we can infer from the data.
I acknowledge the data you've cited -- but you have done nothing to demonstrate how that leads to a reasonable inference that ~100% of Bitcoin transactions are for illegal purposes.
Well yes. That's the point. You can bank in anything that you can rely on, and you can rely on drug markets making money. "A store of value" is nothing but an investment. And the only reason it became actually reliable and profitable to invest in Bitcoin is because of the drug markets.
So we agree, it's a store of value.
And had you bothered to read the studies, you'd notice the specify they do as well.
Was in reference to you bringing up pump and dump memecoins. That's why I quoted that part...
Well not to a person who can't face reality, no.
What reality have I not faced?
Show me proof that I'm wrong.
That's not how that works, and you know that. I also never said you were wrong about anything except Bitcoin not being a store of value, which you agree that it is. So not sure what you're even looking for...
I've never used it -- what do you like about it?