The accusation of not being "legal tender" is shaky at best. Apart from a few odd businesses on the Internet, I've never encountered anyone that would accept US Dollars for any of my debts.
However, this hardly makes USD a collectible hashtag. The actual problem might be an undeveloped community exchanging the currency, which is much less defined than an impossible definition of legal tender.
Personally for me, the promise of Bitcoin being decoupled from the all-seeing eyes of the governments (and greedy middlemen by extension) is unfulfilled, thanks to how difficult it is to obtain it in an untraceable manner.
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Date: 2015-02-09 09:06 pm (UTC)However, this hardly makes USD a collectible hashtag. The actual problem might be an undeveloped community exchanging the currency, which is much less defined than an impossible definition of legal tender.
Personally for me, the promise of Bitcoin being decoupled from the all-seeing eyes of the governments (and greedy middlemen by extension) is unfulfilled, thanks to how difficult it is to obtain it in an untraceable manner.