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GuthL
on June 19, 2018
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BitTorrent is selling for $140M to Justin Sun and ...
Bitcoin and ethereum are such successes! On a smaller scale but growing, 0x is doing an amazing job.
zaidf
on June 19, 2018
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What’s their end product to date besides speculation?
echelon
on June 20, 2018
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I'm thrilled to participate in building something that won't be government controlled. It's the same excitement I had when the web wasn't Facebook and Google.
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on June 20, 2018
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It is in heavy use in black markets and for illegal enterprise such as ransom. So the product is successful transactions outside many laws.
mrhappyunhappy
on June 20, 2018
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The same can be said of cash. Can we agree that this has been played to death by now?
zaidf
on June 20, 2018
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Cash can be used at tens of thousands of locations for non-shady uses. Same can’t be said of crypto.
rootsudo
on June 20, 2018
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Same can be said for the Internet, cars, cell phones, hell a paper and pen.
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