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Re:ClearCoin safer bitcoin transactions by rudiger on Monday May 16, 2011 @11:31AM (#2552834)
It's about layers of abstraction. The Bitcoin architecture provides an abstract, lower-level interface for higher-level functionality to be built upon [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction_layer

Re:ClearCoin safer bitcoin transactions by mike-cardwell on Monday May 16, 2011 @11:37AM (#2552852)
Which is exactly the way it should be.