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Those are the technical questions. The big picture economic question is, how does bitcoin mining transition from block reward revenue to transaction fee revenue ( see http://nakamotoinstitute.org/bitcoin/#selection-185.5-185.39... ). Discussion with Gavin on this subject here: http://bitstein.org/blog/pierre-rochard-and-gavin-andresen-d...

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The greater issue of BTC is the odds between hording speculators who "believe" the "rarity" of Bitcoin will increase the market price. Currency should be predictably stable as a medium to facilitate exchange of other goods and services. Currency should also be encouraged to recirculate back into the economy, rather than sit around doing nothing.

There's also a huge issue of people dedicating effort to form price manipulator syndicates and HFT bots within the cryptocoin communities [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7126153

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