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lwat

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    Comment #5683502

    People like you are the reason they do it. If you stopped being such a pussy maybe they'd stop trying to get a rise out of you.

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    Comment #5660848

    Bitcoin still supports transactions down to 1 cent which is waaaay better than Visa or Mastercard in terms of micro transactions. Just because you can't transfer fractions of a cen…

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    Comment #5660750

    I don't see any suggestions from your side?

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    Comment #5660368

    That's like saying I have no right to stop email spammers and that they should have the right to decide if their email volume is appropriate or not. Making sub-cent transactions is…

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    Comment #5660277

    You can aggregate those and pay them out when they become big enough. Bitcoin stores every transaction on every computer on the Bitcoin network. It's not suited to transactions tha…

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    Comment #5660247

    If you're making transactions smaller than 1 cent, keep them off the blockchain. You're just wasting everyone's resources. Aggregate them until they're big enough to matter and THE…

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    Comment #5660243

    The limit will be adjusted if BTC becomes worth thousands.

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    Comment #5660240

    No this is awesome. Only transaction smaller than about half a cent is blocked. There's no good reason to make a transaction that small on the blockchain. Satoshidice sends thousan…

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    Comment #5592234

    The way I make sense of this is that you need fewer (slow) disk reads to get the same amount of data into RAM, so that might explain the speedup? I agree that it sounds too good to…

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    Comment #5586846

    You say efficient, we say awkward.

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    Comment #5583651

    The chart stops at 2010, many more bitcoins have been mined since.

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    Comment #5569119

    L Ron Hubbard

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    Comment #5569105

    Now that someone's identified these coins people will watch them very closely. It's gonna be very difficult for Satoshi to ever get their millions out of the system.

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    Comment #5569086

    You misread, it's not 63% of the market. Its about 10% of the market - 1148800 BTC

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    Comment #5568613

    Anywhere but the US

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    Comment #5549845

    What was his solutions? Moving the detainees to another facility? Or did he actually want to give them trials and send the innocent ones home?

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    Comment #5548681

    It's pretty simple to work around the price fluctuations. You keep your money in a USD denominated account in a bitcoin exchange (MtGox or whatever) and convert just what you want …

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    Comment #5536084

    The probability of any finite interval P(a, b) = 0

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    Comment #5535118

    No you need 50% of the mining capacity, not the bitcoins

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    Comment #5529014

    I don't care, I'll buy them all. I'd be the sole owner of a piece of internet history.

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    Comment #5528873

    Bitcoinbillionaire supposedly had waaaay more than $12k in Bitcoins. That was just the bitcoins he gave away for nothing. He supposedly had millions worth, if he sold a large chunk…

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    Comment #5528858

    It will never fall to zero, I'll personally buy every last one of them at $0.0001 each.

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    Comment #5521967

    I just found out that IG Markets have added Bitcoin binaries to their trading platform. You can bet on the Bitcoin price being above / below $100, $150, $200 etc on MtGox at some p…

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    Comment #5515734

    The real WTF here is that people still use PayPal.