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Re:Bitmain, the largest mining hardware company, made around... by curuinor on Friday February 23, 2018 @07:22PM (#16450801)
There have now been about a half-dozen various suggestions to get the network to carry more transactions, all of which are mostly failures, except for Lightning Network, which is now in the process of becoming a failure.
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Re:Bitmain, the largest mining hardware company, made around... by atomical on Friday February 23, 2018 @08:57PM (#16451169)
Lightning is DOA. Who has ever heard of opening a payment channel to buy a cup of coffee?
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Re:Bitmain, the largest mining hardware company, made around... by Taniwha on Friday February 23, 2018 @09:34PM (#16451308)
happens every time I wave my credit card in front of a payment terminal
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Re:Bitmain, the largest mining hardware company, made around... by atomical on Friday February 23, 2018 @10:19PM (#16451446)
How much money did you put in escrow last time?
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