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bhartzer on Nov 22, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Someone just made a $147,239,214 Bitcoin transfer

Is there not a limit to the amount of money that can be transferred via Bitcoin?

wmf on Nov 22, 2013 [–]

In theory a single transaction cannot involve more BTC than exists, but that's not a practical limit since you couldn't buy all the BTC that exists anyway.

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