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jackowayed
on Feb 10, 2011
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1 bitcoin worth more than dollar
You haven't destroyed part of the economy. You've just made everyone else's bitcoins worth a little bit more.
johnny22
on Feb 10, 2011
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until you destroy 99% of all the wallets and then you can't exchange them for anything useful.
I'll wait for bitcoin 2.0 :)
noagendamarket
on Feb 10, 2011
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There already is bitcoin 2.0 tl;dr testnet
hippich
on Feb 10, 2011
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plus - there is slight chance someone will generate same private/public key combo and suddenly "find" "lost" coins =)
po
on Feb 10, 2011
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Except bitcoin has no way of marking a coin as "lost" so if you did generate that combo, everyone would be in agreement that it already belongs to a lost wallet.
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