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Re:Zcash begins by lambda on Friday October 28, 2016 @03:03PM (#12819553)
For a very large number of people, these aren't "extremely niche use cases."

Something more comparable to Bitcoin than regular banking would be Western Union; they make 5 billion dollars a year in revenue transferring money. And they charge vastly higher rates than the Bitcoin network does, charging in the 5-10% range for for transactions, which is a pretty hefty overhead.

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Re:Zcash begins by FireBeyond on Friday October 28, 2016 @07:52PM (#12821757)
Not the same since it's on the mining, not the transactions, but here we have the founders taking 20% of the value of the network for the first four years. That's a decent overhead, too.
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