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Re:Bitcoin Halving Just Occured by iso-8859-1 on Monday May 11, 2020 @09:30PM (#23149599)
Hardly a subsidy if it can't be spent ;)
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Re:Bitcoin Halving Just Occured by tim333 on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @12:33AM (#23150611)
The potential discounted future cash flows from it were good.
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Re:Bitcoin Halving Just Occured by sneak on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @09:31AM (#23153762)
I believe GP’s joke is about the minor technical issue that the very first block reward is unspendable in the blockchain, not that there was no market for it.
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