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Money needs to be portable. If you can’t move it around, how can you use it? It may seem that rai stones, from our example earlier in this chapter, were not physically very portable, but in fact their value was definitely portable. The residents of Yap communicated and transferred ownership via word of mouth. Bitcoin is likewise very portable, as you’ll discover in this book. You can transmit it across the Internet to anywhere or anyone in the world at nearly the speed of light.