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Toynbeeidea 2 days ago

It works to buy darknet drugs, sure. Wake me up when I can go to the grocery store and buy some peaches. "Don't worry, cashier-bro, the transaction will only take 20 minutes to go through, trust me!"

lxgr 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

There are so many valid criticisms of crypto, but transaction confirmation time has been solved a long time ago.

OutOfHere 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

It does work for groceries, although not at a physical store, because the store is controlled by government henchmen wrt to their payments. Fwiw, one can trivially by an Amazon gift card using cryptocurrency, using which one can then pay for online groceries.

As for transaction confirmation times, there are cryptocurrencies in common use that confirm nearly immediately. The lack of your knowledge shows.

LoganDark 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Nothing stops a physical store from accepting cryptocurrency, unless they need to also make agreements with the payment card networks.

Toynbeeidea 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Sure, good plan. I'll just walk into thr local CVS to buy a gift card and... oh, wait, no. Exact same issue.

OutOfHere 2 days ago | parent [-]

It is a working means. The gift card is exclusively bought online. It's not usable in store anyway since there is no physical card. There is no issue with online purchases.

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