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Re:Bitcoin Surpasses $4,000, Reaches Another Milestone by shmerl on Sunday August 13, 2017 @03:16AM (#15001894)
Sending money is a good use case.
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Re:Bitcoin Surpasses $4,000, Reaches Another Milestone by westiseast on Sunday August 13, 2017 @03:31AM (#15001941)
* would be * a good use case if it were reliable.

I don't want to say I'll transfer $1000 to someone and by the time the transfer is complete the vale has dropped/I need to wait 5 days for confirmation/ the bitcoin exchange has collapsed.

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Re:Bitcoin Surpasses $4,000, Reaches Another Milestone by nicky0 on Sunday August 13, 2017 @05:24PM (#15005022)
You don't need an exchange to make a bitcoin transaction, that's the whole point. It's decentralised.

Exchanges are only for trading your fiat currency for bitcoin.

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