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Re:Bitcoins Fail Currency Test in Scandinavia’s Richest Nation by LukeHoersten on Saturday December 14, 2013 @02:03PM (#6906658)
They're not actual bitcoins. The Bitcoin is a wallet embedded inside of a physical coin. You could take a picture of a USB key and call it a Bitcoin using that logic.
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Re:Bitcoins Fail Currency Test in Scandinavia’s Richest Nation by maaku on Saturday December 14, 2013 @02:34PM (#6906768)
I think I know what bitcoins are. So what is a better image to use then?
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Re:Bitcoins Fail Currency Test in Scandinavia’s Richest Nation by jadeddrag on Saturday December 14, 2013 @02:55PM (#6906860)
The Casascius coin is just fine to communicate the idea. Either that or just the bitcoin logo.
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Re:Bitcoins Fail Currency Test in Scandinavia’s Richest Nation by bitmonster on Sunday December 15, 2013 @02:02PM (#6910371)
People are selling btc this way on ebay
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