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Re:Bitcoin: Evidence of spoofing, wash trading, and a scheme... by whipoodle on Saturday August 05, 2017 @09:48AM (#14935654)
It's the Wild West, which admittedly does look pretty fun at times. Interesting at the least. But I can't believe anyone really thinks that any day now, normal people are going to start using this currency.
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Re:Bitcoin: Evidence of spoofing, wash trading, and a scheme... by ty_a on Saturday August 05, 2017 @12:24PM (#14936456)
At what point would people start using Bitcoin as currency? When it hits 5k, 10k, 100k, 1m?
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Re:Bitcoin: Evidence of spoofing, wash trading, and a scheme... by kbaker on Saturday August 05, 2017 @12:44PM (#14936562)
I mean, you already can. I have purchased things from Newegg and Steam, used it with Expedia to book hotels and flights...

You can treat Bitcoin the same way you treat USD, there are a lot of places that accept BTC directly. Phone apps make transactions easy.

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