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Bitcoin => Press => Topic started by: Piper67 on February 28, 2013, 03:06:00 AM



Title: 2013-02-27 dailydot.com How to Get and Spend Bitcoin
Post by: Piper67 on February 28, 2013, 03:06:00 AM
http://www.dailydot.com/society/bitcoin-how-to-buy-spend-digital-currency/


Title: Re: 2013-02-27 dailydot.com How to Get and Spend Bitcoin
Post by: hamdi on February 28, 2013, 01:46:37 PM
pretty negative.


Title: Re: 2013-02-27 dailydot.com How to Get and Spend Bitcoin
Post by: deepceleron on February 28, 2013, 02:31:20 PM
Pretty misinformed:

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...some have taken mining to an extreme, attempting to use processing power to find and collect more of the currency than they were designed to find in the normal use of the system.

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To download your Bitcoins, you will probably want to first download a Bitcoin client

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Any fees are small and issued by Bitcoin exchanges

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You can host them on your computer or use a cloud-based service. The computer-hosted version takes longer to validate a transaction

And what manner of grammar be this?

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Some law enforcement agencies fear the use of Bitcoin by criminals and even terrorists has the potential to dramatically increase.

I guess I'm supposed to insert my own commas:
Some law enforcement agencies fear the use of Bitcoin by criminals, and even terrorists has the potential to dramatically increase.
Some law enforcement agencies fear the use of Bitcoin, by criminals and even terrorists, has the potential to dramatically increase.
Some law enforcement agencies fear the use of Bitcoin by criminals, and even terrorists, has the potential to dramatically increase.