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Re:What Goldman Is Telling Big Money Clients About Bitcoin by tradersam on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @03:05AM (#15016121)
It is faster that Bitcoin (~2.5min avg block time vs ~10min), has a vibrant community, and still very secure. Easier entry price, and you can spend $5 without a $3 fee, or any fee at all.

It also already has SegWit and has for months.

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Re:What Goldman Is Telling Big Money Clients About Bitcoin by Cthulhu_ on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @03:33AM (#15016225)
"Easier entry price" is a non-argument, it's always been known Bitcoin would become expensive and trading in single BTC would not be viable; that's why BTC and other cryptocurrencies are expressed in floating point numbers / Satoshis. You can buy 1 Litecoin or 0.01 Bitcoin (example), doesn't matter that much other than having a full number. But the investment price is the same.
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Re:What Goldman Is Telling Big Money Clients About Bitcoin by acchow on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @04:19AM (#15016392)
Hopefully transaction fees will start to go down once off-chain transactions start becoming a thing.
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