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0 pointsAlexandrB3y ago0 comments

Being fungible means every BTC is the same other BTC and every BCH is the same as every other BCH, not that BCH is the same as BTC.

Water and oil are both fungible commodities. No one would claim they're economically interchangeable with each other.

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kayamon3y ago

Exactly, so BTC and BCH would be considered different commodities. But BCH can never win provably in the long-term, so therefore would not be able to qualify as a functioning commodity.

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