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Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure (www.dlnews.com)
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[–] Guacamole@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Original purpose of BTC is to prevent government from controlling and inflating the supply of money. You can't make 1000 BTC from thin air and put it into circulation. There is no company or CEO that controls it, it's code is maintained by open community and network secured by globally distributed miners and nodes. That's regarding BTC, other cryptocurrency nah