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Re:Ethereum: A number of hard forks turn out to be scams by mdpopescu on Thursday January 10, 2019 @04:52PM (#18878642)
You can transfer hundreds of millions of dollars in minutes, with very low costs. For example, [1]

[1] https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-largest-Bitcoin-transaction-...

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Re:Ethereum: A number of hard forks turn out to be scams by root_axis on Thursday January 10, 2019 @04:56PM (#18878669)
No you cannot. You can transfer blockchain tokens ostensibly valued at millions, but you can't actually spend that money without cashing it out, which is extremely difficult with sums that large.
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Re:Ethereum: A number of hard forks turn out to be scams by kss238 on Thursday January 10, 2019 @06:44PM (#18879648)
There is lots of things you can purchase directly with bitcoin.
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Re:Ethereum: A number of hard forks turn out to be scams by TheOtherHobbes on Thursday January 10, 2019 @07:12PM (#18879848)
Very few of them are both legal and tangible.
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Re:Ethereum: A number of hard forks turn out to be scams by kss238 on Thursday January 10, 2019 @09:54PM (#18880641)
You can purchase anything on Newegg with bitcoin directly
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Re:Ethereum: A number of hard forks turn out to be scams by simple_phrases on Thursday January 10, 2019 @07:53PM (#18880075)
Bitcoin isn't liquid like cash.
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Re:Ethereum: A number of hard forks turn out to be scams by mdpopescu on Friday January 11, 2019 @03:26AM (#18881807)
True. A lot of governments are working on fixing that... by making cash a lot less liquid.
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