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Bitcoin creates more upside and downside than traditional money because it makes users power users with no system administrator to fall back on.

Drawn from what Balaji Srinivasan said

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  1. BS

    Balaji Srinivasan 12 Jul 2026

    Another example is Bitcoin. It’s the Unix of money. You can send millions with a keystroke or rm your entire fortune. That’s more upside and more downside, by making people power users, and taking away the system administrator.

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