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Re:It’s easier and cheaper to use bank wires than Bitcoin by empath75 on Thursday September 29, 2016 @01:03PM (#12606896)
to be fair to bitcoin, the primary point of bitcoin is that it's a decentralized ledger not under the control of a government or bank. Ease-of-use was an afterthought.

(but then again, it ended up not being very decentralized, either)

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Re:It’s easier and cheaper to use bank wires than Bitcoin by mywittyname on Thursday September 29, 2016 @01:40PM (#12607198)
> to be fair to bitcoin, the primary point of bitcoin is that it's a decentralized ledger not under the control of a government or bank.

Which, as we can see, costs a lot of money and doesn't add much value for legal uses.

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