• Handles@leminal.space
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    7 months ago

    Oh, Monero is what you’re selling shilling?

    But yes, while there is a place for digital money that doesn’t equal cryptocurrency. For instance, I haven’t held physical legal tender in my hands in ages. All my purchases go through online banking systems (via credit cards or my bank’s web ui) and I don’t even remember what my local bank notes look like anymore.

    The big difference is that established banking system (which I have my own reservations about) have checks, failsafes and customer securities to ensure that when the next crash comes, we have some chance to recover our losses.

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      7 months ago

      No need to insult me.

      Those checks and fail-safes have value but come at a cost. Middlemen want their cut. So it doesn’t make sense to have micro transactions online, so there is a gap in the market for quick low cost low value payments.