Bitcoin Exchanges Are Buckling While the Price Surges Past 16,000

Re:Bitcoin Exchanges Are Buckling While the Price Surges Pas... by Scarblac on Thursday December 07, 2017 @12:46PM (#15872161)

So a currency that is hardly used to pay for things with and can handle a small number of transactions per second, with transaction fees, risk of being made illegal, competitor altcoins that are at least as good and the energy consumption of a small country will hold 2% of the value of the world's financial wealth?

Buying bridges from strangers looks completely sane in comparison.

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Re:Bitcoin Exchanges Are Buckling While the Price Surges Pas... by em3rgent0rdr on Thursday December 07, 2017 @01:06PM (#15872420)

Lightning network protocol has reached version 1.0 and they've demonstrated videos of it working.

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Re:Bitcoin Exchanges Are Buckling While the Price Surges Pas... by afghanPower on Thursday December 07, 2017 @04:58PM (#15874739)

Lightning network destroys the whole reason why you would use bitcoin -> decentralization.

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