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Re:Bitcoin Sinks to $41,000 Amid ‘Extreme Fear’ by fsh on Friday January 07, 2022 @10:03AM (#29839886)
And now the receiving computer has an unintentional $100M bug bounty on all its software and hardware. For digital money to be actually usable, you need some kind of authority that can revert transactions in case of mistakes or fraud.
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Re:Bitcoin Sinks to $41,000 Amid ‘Extreme Fear’ by vmception on Friday January 07, 2022 @11:54AM (#29841478)
people can build that, and some services offer that

its pretty clear there is a market and user story for a segment of the population that doesn't value reversibility

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