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Pavitra comments on General Bitcoin discussion thread (June 2011) - Less Wrong Discussion

4 Post author: SilasBarta 10 June 2011 11:21PM

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Comment author: Pavitra 15 June 2011 04:08:46PM 0 points [-]

The code can easily be modified to use only a partial ledger if necessary. It's not yet enough of a problem that anyone has bothered to do so.

"Free transactions" is more of a common misconception than a selling point, as SilasBarta discusses in the sibling.