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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 6271252" data-attributes="member: 8835">I think you guys are fixating on BitCoin and it's particular problems a bit too much to see the big picture.Crypto-Currencies aren't just about making a new brand of money.  They are about making a new way of transferring money beyond 2 banks saying subtract 100 dollars from Janx's account and put it into Derren's account.Because that's all banks have right now is lines on a spreadsheet.Which means, the only thing keeping banks honest about how much money is in the supply is some auditing.It would be very trivial to add $1,000 to my account, just by changing a value in a database.Crypto-currency changes that mechanism from changing a value in a row in a database to something that is allegedly harder to forge and includes its own auditing.So instead of 2 banks agreeing to subtract one one side if the other bank adds, the data itself enforces that.That might be useful to making better online banking/debit card systems.</blockquote>