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Re:SEC asked Coinbase to halt trading for everything except ... by Vecr on Monday July 31, 2023 @01:57AM (#36939260)
It's newer, less well recognized in general, and as far as a government Bitcoin node is concerned it does not exist. Bitcoin's case on not being a security is possibly based on the low likelihood of future incompatible changes and its track record and age.
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Re:SEC asked Coinbase to halt trading for everything except ... by EgregiousCube on Monday July 31, 2023 @02:06AM (#36939304)
It's exactly the same age as Bitcoin. What's a government Bitcoin node?
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Re:SEC asked Coinbase to halt trading for everything except ... by duskwuff on Monday July 31, 2023 @02:15AM (#36939348)
> It's exactly the same age as Bitcoin.

Don't be disingenuous. Bitcoin Cash didn't exist prior to 2017, when it forked from Bitcoin.

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Re:SEC asked Coinbase to halt trading for everything except ... by xref on Monday July 31, 2023 @02:23AM (#36939390)
…though the Bitcoin Cash blockchain has valid txns going back to 2009 just like BTC. Everyone wants answers that are black and white, cut and dry. The world is a lot more grey.
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Re:SEC asked Coinbase to halt trading for everything except ... by tirpen on Monday July 31, 2023 @03:18AM (#36939646)
If anyone, using your definition of coin age, can create a 14 year old crypto currency instantly, then clearly your definition is not useful.
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Re:SEC asked Coinbase to halt trading for everything except ... by JumpCrisscross on Monday July 31, 2023 @05:12AM (#36940260)
> though the Bitcoin Cash blockchain has valid txns going back to 2009 just like BTC

By this logic, the U.S. dollar is millennia old, since it grafted onto an economy that used older currencies still on its adoption.

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Re:SEC asked Coinbase to halt trading for everything except ... by tibanne on Monday July 31, 2023 @07:57PM (#36950567)
You need to read up on how blockchains work.
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