<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><br></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"><hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Mirco Romanato <painlord2k@libero.it> wrote:</font></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">> Do people used these commodities to send, anonymously, in few minutes, 4</span><font size="2" face="Arial"><br></font></div>millions US$ of value to someone else?<br><br>Yes, but I doubt many transactions of that size are happening as yet. </div><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"
class="yui_3_7_2_20_1365025958780_62"><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_7_2_20_1365025958780_62">The total market value of all bitcoins in circulation exceeded $1 billion a few days ago, I believe for the first time. That news caught my attention. It is a large market, enough for me to take it seriously, but it is of course still tiny compared compared the size of the global economy.</div><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_7_2_20_1365025958780_62"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_7_2_20_1365025958780_62"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Gordon</span></div><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_7_2_20_1365025958780_62"><span style="font-size:
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