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		Toucan on Feb 9, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We built a Bitcoin Keurig coffee maker this weeken... I'm not sure if you're being serious or not, but the cost of double spending is vastly higher than the value of the coffee. The risk of accepting on 0 confirmations is probably lower than that of accepting fake currency or the cost of processing a credit card.

grey-area on Feb 9, 2014 [–]

Just out of curiosity, how hard is it to create fake coins if a vendor is not checking for confirmations at all?

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