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Re:A Prediction: Bitcoin Is Doomed to Fail by vectorpush on Wednesday November 27, 2013 @06:21PM (#6811919)
Only in this case it's not a single buyer.

i.e. completely invalidating the comparison.

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Re:A Prediction: Bitcoin Is Doomed to Fail by reginaldjcooper on Wednesday November 27, 2013 @09:48PM (#6812741)
That's not true, there could be multiple buyers and the punchline would just be, "to whom? there's only the three of you."
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Re:A Prediction: Bitcoin Is Doomed to Fail by vectorpush on Thursday November 28, 2013 @12:13AM (#6813128)
That punchline would make no sense. The client would reply "to the market of two buyers".
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Re:A Prediction: Bitcoin Is Doomed to Fail by reginaldjcooper on Thursday November 28, 2013 @02:12AM (#6813436)
that's right, I had a momentary lapse in judgement, sorry
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Re:A Prediction: Bitcoin Is Doomed to Fail by hatu on Thursday November 28, 2013 @04:33AM (#6813798)
But a few days later the second person would sell and then we would be back at the punchline for the only remaining stock holder :)
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