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Re:Top Bitcoin questions I’ve been asked by lmkg on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @10:09PM (#7520477)
> For almost all practical applications for which bitcoin is being used, this doesn't actually come in to play very often.

But could this be a self-fulfilling prophecy? Perhaps this property of Bitcoin is hurting its adoption, by relegating it only to uses where this is not a hurdle.

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Re:Top Bitcoin questions I’ve been asked by reshmakh on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @10:14PM (#7520495)
Possible, but auth apps or other off blockchain workarounds must be coming. Existing payments systems had similar problems in the past.
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