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Re:No End in Sight for Crypto Sell-Off as Bitcoin Breaches $... by singularity2001 on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @10:29AM (#18494487)
> breach $20k again

This is so unreasonable for a piece of data which was worth $0.1 a decade ago and is easily cloneable (trivially if not for network effects and integration)

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Re:No End in Sight for Crypto Sell-Off as Bitcoin Breaches $... by conanbatt on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @11:56AM (#18495307)
Currency and crypto are only made of network effects, so..
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Re:No End in Sight for Crypto Sell-Off as Bitcoin Breaches $... by jki275 on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @11:35AM (#18503848)
The entire concept of bitcoin requires the network effects and integration. Pretending the hash value of a block is useful in any way without them misses the entire point of its existence.
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