• Ogmios
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    3 days ago

    Also useless if you don’t have electricity or an Internet connection.

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      3 days ago

      That’s not entirely accurate. Look up Caesaceous coins. There aren’t many of them, but they do exist, and they are physical coins with a private key embedded under a hologram, which as long as the hologram has not been tampered with, is guaranteed to contain the amount of crypto it says, and you can trade that without electricity or internet.

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        3 days ago

        Until that gets common acceptance at places like grocery stores, I’ll stand by what I said.

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        So it’s just a significantly more complicated and expensive coin.

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          I’m not sure how much more expensive it is, but I wouldn’t think it would add much to the price of the actual crypto that’s in it.