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Even though I am a bitcoiner, I do not understand the curiosty of the HN readership in what is basically an ebay clone for bitcoin.


As someone who has only looked at Bitcoin from the outside, it nonetheless hits many of my personal interests: currency arbitrage, encryption, digital ventures, security, etc.

So, I'm interested in outcomes of Bitcoin. Ebay has all sorts of restrictions on what you can post and bid on, will a market emerge for (as others noted) OJ's book, transplant kidneys and illegal publications?

On a less lurid scale the site _has_ to do some serious work and thought around fraud, transactions and reputation in anonymous settings, work I'd like to take lessons from.


mmm, it's a little hard to get excited when it's pretty much 99% junk. still, spose ebay started that way too.




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