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A comment on Ask HN: For Bitcoin to be ubiquitous, what must happen?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: For Bitcoin to be ubiquitous, what must happen? by ceejayoz on Sunday November 17, 2013 @04:41PM (#6751053)
Waiting 10 minutes for your coffee payment to go through?

Pitch that to Starbucks and see how far you get.

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Re:Ask HN: For Bitcoin to be ubiquitous, what must happen? by celticninja on Friday November 29, 2013 @11:15AM (#6819912)
sorry i meant that for coffee you dont need to wait for a confirmation, a zero confirmation transaction for $5 is safe enough, no one is going to bother to double spend against that as the computational power required means it is not economical to do so. Zero conf transactions are almost instantaneous
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