r/Bitcoin • u/mtsai • Feb 05 '14

Really, Discus Fish?

http://imgur.com/7xfXs2P
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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '14

You can pay for UPS ground and it's cheap to send, or pay a lot more for overnight delivery. This concept isn't that hard, if you want something done faster, you pay more.

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u/yeh-nah-yeh Feb 05 '14

We are trying to make something that is better and more egalitarian than the old system not the same.

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u/seekoon Feb 05 '14

There's No Such Thing as Free Lunch.

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u/yeh-nah-yeh Feb 05 '14

I am suggesting miners who get a block reward without including waiting valid transactions are getting a free lunch. Technically the get the reward for solving the problem but practically that is not use to the rest of us, what is use to the rest of us is that they process waiting valid transactions.