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homulilly on July 4, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Anonymous Reddit without servers

So what you're saying is that you can do instant transactions with bitcoin if you don't actually use bitcoin.

kentt on July 4, 2015 | [–]

No he's saying the cost of double spending is much larger than $100 so merchants will/should generally accept those.

haakon on July 4, 2015 | [–]

No, Coinbase and BitPay accept 0-confirmation transactions when you pay a vendor by publishing a Bitcoin transaction through the Bitcoin peer-to-peer network, if the vendor has set it up to do so.

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