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Re:Steam is no longer supporting Bitcoin by Bromskloss on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @09:54PM (#15867244)
> The price could crash by 25% before I sell the bitcoin and now I've a cash-flow problem

Well, the parent comment said "if the transactions were quick", meaning that you would exchange the bitcoin for something else as soon as you received them (within a second or minute, say).

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Re:Steam is no longer supporting Bitcoin by salvar on Thursday December 07, 2017 @03:36AM (#15868576)
Wouldn't that cost a huge amount in transaction fees, making the whole thing moot?
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Re:Steam is no longer supporting Bitcoin by Bromskloss on Thursday December 07, 2017 @10:49AM (#15871055)
For a large enough sales volume, the transaction fee might be negligible, but I don't know the numbers.
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