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Your two cents worth literally; although at the current Bitcoin exchange rate [1] a typical post/comment/vote on witcoin.com costs USD 0.079.

[1] http://www.bitcoincharts.com/markets/

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you can post on the witcoin sandbox and someone is offering .10

Thanks for linking the bitcoin charts site which is another worthy bitcoin service.

or USD 0.0079

Also, each category has its own prices. Some categories post/comment/vote costs at current Bitcoin exchange rate are USD 0.0000000079.

This brings up a little facet of bitcoin that I'm /really/ not crazy about: The smallest possible unit is 0.00000001 BTC. With a fixed cap of 21M BTC, requiring that each transaction be for at least 4.8*10^-16 of the total possible amount in circulation seems like a questionable choice at best.

If it becomes a runaway train towards this endpoint, this would give bitcoin >10x current M1, while retaining the ability to pay in $.01 increments.

This should be sufficient for the near term ;)

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