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Re:One Bitcoin miner is buying 20,000 16nm wafers from TSMC ... by totalZero on Monday January 22, 2018 @04:57PM (#16208338)
Mining new bitcoins makes transaction easier, which improves liquidity of current bitcoins. That certainly should have a positive effect on the theoretical value of a bitcoin.
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Re:One Bitcoin miner is buying 20,000 16nm wafers from TSMC ... by contrarian_ on Monday January 22, 2018 @05:35PM (#16208685)
> Mining new bitcoins makes transaction easier

No. As long as at least one person is brute forcing hashes, transactions will be processed at the same rate of about 10 tx/s.

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