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Re:Show HN: Coinmon – Check Bitcoin Prices in Terminal by rplnt on Monday November 20, 2017 @09:19AM (#15739988)
Higher general awareness would be my guess? Regular-money people start to invest. Too bad it only works as an investment and not something useful (considering how much energy is wasted on it).
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Re:Show HN: Coinmon – Check Bitcoin Prices in Terminal by AznHisoka on Monday November 20, 2017 @09:47AM (#15740176)
It would be cool if all those miners were also solving a puzzle that incidentally would help cure some disease, or figure out how to beat the speed of light.
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Re:Show HN: Coinmon – Check Bitcoin Prices in Terminal by jacobush on Monday November 20, 2017 @10:15AM (#15740433)
Or figure out how to make faster DRAM. (Cuckoo Cycle algorithm.) Incidentally, faster than light communication might increase speed of memory, right?
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Re:Show HN: Coinmon – Check Bitcoin Prices in Terminal by wolco on Monday November 20, 2017 @09:36AM (#15740090)
A lot of people are using it for payments.
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Re:Show HN: Coinmon – Check Bitcoin Prices in Terminal by rplnt on Monday November 20, 2017 @09:42AM (#15740131)
For other currencies, sure. But minority of moved value would be used to pay for goods/services. Also, isn't the fee extremely high right now?
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Re:Show HN: Coinmon – Check Bitcoin Prices in Terminal by wolco on Monday November 20, 2017 @10:22AM (#15740479)
It's around 10 dollars. A lot of retailers offer a discount (because each credit card transaction costs them 5%).

If your purchase is high enough it makes sense. Would not make sense for micro transactions

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Re:Show HN: Coinmon – Check Bitcoin Prices in Terminal by solotronics on Monday November 20, 2017 @12:14PM (#15741438)
not true currently
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