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A comment on Bitcoin Under Political Attack – Contentious Fork Segwit2x on 16th November. Parent comment

Re:Bitcoin Under Political Attack – Contentious Fork Segwit2... by x1798DE on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @09:16AM (#15643483)
Almost the entire payment infrastructure of the internet relies on one of the libraries / standards mentioned in the post above, so it would be a stretch to say they don't involve money.
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Re:Bitcoin Under Political Attack – Contentious Fork Segwit2... by funyug on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @09:30AM (#15643610)
I understand but they are not directly involved in the process. They provide value to other systems rather than carrying the value themselves.
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Re:Bitcoin Under Political Attack – Contentious Fork Segwit2... by lightbyte on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @09:28AM (#15643595)
That's a terrible comparison, my money doesn't get locked into a specific SSL library when I use one for the first time.
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