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Re:BitTorrent is selling for $140M to Justin Sun and Tron by bredren on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @08:30PM (#17351437)
It is in heavy use in black markets and for illegal enterprise such as ransom. So the product is successful transactions outside many laws.
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Re:BitTorrent is selling for $140M to Justin Sun and Tron by mrhappyunhappy on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @11:30PM (#17352354)
The same can be said of cash. Can we agree that this has been played to death by now?
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Re:BitTorrent is selling for $140M to Justin Sun and Tron by zaidf on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @12:52AM (#17352661)
Cash can be used at tens of thousands of locations for non-shady uses. Same can’t be said of crypto.
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Re:BitTorrent is selling for $140M to Justin Sun and Tron by rootsudo on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @07:54AM (#17354469)
Same can be said for the Internet, cars, cell phones, hell a paper and pen.
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