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Re:Show HN: my weekend project - sell files for bitcoins by JeremyBanks on Monday April 04, 2011 @05:32PM (#2408645)
> There is a real market need for non-reversible, hidden transactions

BitCoin's transactions are all publicly available, even if only coins can be tracked, not users.

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Re:Show HN: my weekend project - sell files for bitcoins by 3pt14159 on Monday April 04, 2011 @08:18PM (#2409156)
Not if the transaction is made via usb or CD in the mail.

Edit: and by transaction I mean a "wallet" is loaded up with bitcoins and then handed off to someone else.

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Re:Show HN: my weekend project - sell files for bitcoins by JeremyBanks on Tuesday April 05, 2011 @11:43AM (#2411364)
That's very interesting and I hadn't thought of that, but it seems that you'd need to conduct a transaction with the newly-acquired coins in order to ensure that they aren't spent twice.
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