Bitcoin is money, U.S. judge says in case tied to JPMorgan hack

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-jpmorgan-cyber-bitcoin-idUSKCN11P2DE

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[36 Points] None:

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[5 Points] vendor_Hallmark:

Bitcoin is only money sometimes?


[2 Points] dnmadvocate:

Lets go with Andreas Antonopoulis to define this for us all, shall we.

https://youtu.be/ak1iojpiHpM?t=1m21s

Before paper, before gold, money at its core is simple communication.

It has nothing to do with divisibility, it has nothing to do with governments.

The very first forms of money humans used were ledgers to keep track of peoples incomes and spendings via writing scripts. IE communication.