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		tromp on Sept 27, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hal Finney’s proposal for optimizing Bitcoin to be... Apologies for the use of 'x' to denote multiplication. I just figured out that I could have written as asterisk * as 3 asterisks in markdown, but it's too late to edit my post now.

Sniffnoy on Sept 27, 2020 [–]

More straightforwardly, you can escape it with a backslash, pretty sure.

kristianp on Sept 28, 2020 | | [–]

Let's try:

backslash star: \*

3 stars: *. - Works if it's not the last characters of the post.

tromp on Sept 27, 2020 | | [–]

I tried that and it failed miserably: \* produces \

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