Cyan comments on Making money with Bitcoin? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Cyan 22 April 2011 02:22:52PM 0 points [-]

I imagine that early uptake of a Bitcoin clone would be facilitated if people thought that the hard cap on Bitcoins proper would cause the scheme to have undesirable properties as a currency.

Comment author: gwern 23 April 2011 06:48:29PM 1 point [-]

Surely. But that's not the case, as people think the presence of a hard cap is one of the valuable traits of Bitcoin.