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		Sniffnoy on Sept 27, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hal Finney’s proposal for optimizing Bitcoin to be... 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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