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Re:Coinbase raises $100M Series D led by IVP by fpgaminer on Thursday August 10, 2017 @02:41PM (#14982772)
You missed the salient word: "clear"

PayPal transactions never really clear. You can probably reverse a 3 year old PayPal transaction...

But Bitcoin payments are irreversible after only 1 hour. There are no other systems that accomplish that online.

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Re:Coinbase raises $100M Series D led by IVP by pedrocr on Thursday August 10, 2017 @03:39PM (#14983326)
If your definition of clearing is that they can't be reversed then nothing that isn't a crypto currency allows it. That's not the usual definition of transaction clearing though.
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