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But in reality exchanges would become obsolete if bitcoin really took off (you would just get paid and purchase goods all in bitcoin, no need to exchange to another currency).

An alternative digital currency may emerge that is centralized, or more likely, a single currency exchange will dominate bitcoin.

BitCoin operates in a fuzzy realm, for sure, but it is still poor practice to not follow banking safety practices.

>(3) is happening with bitcoin and tor You can't centralize bitcoin, that would be like trying to centralize p2p sharing, the protocol doesn't allow it.

There is a small number of VPS providers that accept Bitcoin (and require no identifying information) - probably this is your best bet.

Sometimes the tools are used for internet marketing (like Google) other times for energy saving (like Nest) --- or gambling (bitcoin blockchain-based betting).

And it's an awful waste of energy (not saying mining bitcoin in general is a waste of energy, but doing it this way is).

(3) is happening with bitcoin and tor, but as soon as they get popular enough they get centralized again.

Money was recently decentralized with bitcoin.

I built this last year using OpenStack and Bitcoin technology.

We are leveraging Bitcoin blockchain technology to provide hedging and risk management tools that are more accessible, affordable, and globally available than their contemporary counterparts, and with minimized counterparty and clearing risk.

(I'll prove it if necessary, but the tracks to this username have already been proved out by the bitcoin community) This is pretty vivid summary.

The achilles heel of a network such as ethereum (and bitcoin) is that "the crypto-economy" needs to stay causally disconnected from the other economy, that uses blockchains as a tool to run trusted fiduciary code (currency, insurance, identity, reputation).

With 8,000$ worth of AWS credit, you would probably get a few cents worth of Bitcoin.