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Re:Bitcoin Gets Close to $5,000 by booleandilemma on Friday September 01, 2017 @09:13PM (#15153578)
I was skeptical of Bitcoin for a long time, but the other day I was on a (legal) website and they had it listed as a payment method, right next to Visa. Seeing it there really showed me how far it's come.
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Re:Bitcoin Gets Close to $5,000 by tunetine on Friday September 01, 2017 @09:32PM (#15153667)
Are you for real? I feel like we're being trolled by Bitcoin holders who want to keep the value propped up.
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Re:Bitcoin Gets Close to $5,000 by tehlike on Friday September 01, 2017 @09:44PM (#15153716)
they probably couldn't hear you over the price of their coins.
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Re:Bitcoin Gets Close to $5,000 by MBCook on Friday September 01, 2017 @09:24PM (#15153632)
It's not that hard to add to a real website, but what percentage of transactions are conducted in it?

I mean if some big retailer like Amazon or BestBuy or Walmart to accept it, but only 0.02% of their daily transactions involved bitcoin would that be a success? It's a lot of money in absolute numbers, but it's minuscule as a percentage.

If it were 5% that would certainly be something to look at.

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