However, the coin ended up being withdrawn instead, never to become a decimal-based coin; it remains the last pre-decimal coin to come off the production run.
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"When a penny is used in a transaction, it's a one-way transaction, " said James Benfield, executive director of the Washington-based Coin Coalition and a longtime penny critic.
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Several CryptoNote-based coins launches are looking very similar : their announcement threads on bitcointalk . org forum were created by " newbie " accounts and looked alike stressing the slogans such as'CPU-only mining'and being'ASIC resistant '.
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Developer of Boolberry, the CryptoNote-based coin, proposed another solution for this problem by going back and actually pruning the old signatures from the blockchain; however, said solution has not been implemented yet . [ reference needed]
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Metal based coins had the advantage of carrying their value within the coins themselves on the other hand, they induced manipulations : the clipping of coins in the attempt to get and recycle the precious metal.
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"It's just a matter of fashion; it's a new and popular coin, " said Leonard Kaplan, a well-known metals trader and a former chief bullion dealer at Monex Deposit Co ., a Newport Beach, California-based coin trading firm.
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Signs that Habsburg Spain was declining were clearly visible during the reign of Philip III . Throughout Philip III's reign, the main currency was a copper-based coin called vellon, which was minted in response to the fall in imports of silver.
