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		skohan on June 14, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Gets Big Backers So the promise of Bitcoin when I started reading up about it was that the fees could be close to zero. It's become less of an issue, because there are some traditional currency exchange services out there which have reasonable flat-rate offerings nowadays, but I would still be happy to pay less.

runeks on June 14, 2019 [–]

> So the promise of Bitcoin when I started reading up about it was that the fees could be close to zero.

I don't see why this would be the case. Neither when talking blockchain-fees nor exchange-fees.

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