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Re:Tarsnap Support for Bitcoin Ending April First by mschuster91 on Sunday January 28, 2018 @12:10PM (#16252081)
I certainly see Bitcoin as a viable "middleman" for trading and arbitrage between all the altcoins. Right now that seems to be the biggest use case.
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Re:Tarsnap Support for Bitcoin Ending April First by atomical on Sunday January 28, 2018 @02:08PM (#16252817)
That's only trading on an exchange though. That doesn't use the protocol.
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Re:Tarsnap Support for Bitcoin Ending April First by joncrane on Monday January 29, 2018 @09:43AM (#16257743)
Not really because transactions in BitCoin take forever to clear.
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