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Re:Goldman Sachs Is Setting Up a Cryptocurrency Trading Desk by drcross on Thursday December 21, 2017 @10:18PM (#15985017)
>It offers AFAIK the fastest transactions with NO FEES.

Is it not obvious to you that no fees is a ridiculous proposition? Free transactions mean spam and that doesn't work in a distributed ledger.

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Re:Goldman Sachs Is Setting Up a Cryptocurrency Trading Desk by rileyphone on Friday December 22, 2017 @02:15AM (#15985786)
Transactions have a small amount of PoW attached to them to deter spam, and are also very small (designed to fit in a UDP packet).
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