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Re:How Bitcoin Can Save Publishing by kaonashi on Monday October 07, 2013 @06:44PM (#6511823)
Bitcoin paywalls… gee how original. It's just like our old non-solutions, only with Bitcoins, so that makes it awesome.
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Re:How Bitcoin Can Save Publishing by aminok on Monday October 07, 2013 @11:15PM (#6512819)
Lower fees, and no divulgement of personal financial details, make it awesome for micropayments.
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Re:How Bitcoin Can Save Publishing by kaonashi on Tuesday October 08, 2013 @01:28AM (#6513215)
It's like Paypal without the risk management and all the convenience of forex.
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Re:How Bitcoin Can Save Publishing by aminok on Sunday October 13, 2013 @07:21PM (#6544523)
It has lower fees than PayPal. For micropayments, you don't really need risk management. In addition to offering a lower cost option for micropayments, it enables transactions in countries not well integrated into the global economy where PayPal can't operate (e.g. Ukraine).

You're right about the forex cost.

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