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Re:Purism Collaborates with Cryptocurrency Monero to Enable ... by generalizethis on Friday October 13, 2017 @07:30PM (#15469872)
It isn't really a rating of mild/hot/atomic advantages, it's one offers fungibility and privacy and the other is a public ledger--they have vastly different design goals that will separate them more and more over time.
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Re:Purism Collaborates with Cryptocurrency Monero to Enable ... by wyldfire on Friday October 13, 2017 @10:33PM (#15470368)
Monero is super great but would have trouble scaling to bitcoin levels of transactions. I hope they continue to develop it as people begin to consider it more.
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Re:Purism Collaborates with Cryptocurrency Monero to Enable ... by hossbeast on Saturday October 14, 2017 @02:31AM (#15471055)
To be fair Bitcoin is also having trouble with this
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Re:Purism Collaborates with Cryptocurrency Monero to Enable ... by Casseres on Saturday October 14, 2017 @05:36AM (#15471481)
How so? The blocksize and fees automatically adjust. The blockchain will get bigger, but as I understand it, there are some theoretical ways to trim some of it. Supposedly trimming isn't a big priority because the theory is that storage capabilities will grow along with the blockchain.
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