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joshdance
on Oct 7, 2013
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FBI struggles to seize 600,000 Bitcoins from alleg...
Will having 5% of Bitcoin out of circulation cause any economic problems with the currency?
adventured
on Oct 7, 2013
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No, it'll make all other bitcoins more valuable, so long as the market believes said bitcoins are permanently out of circulation (not likely though, as the Feds will auction / sell them off as they do with other seized assets).
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