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Re:MobileCoin: A New Cryptocurrency from Moxie Marlinspike by wmf on Friday December 15, 2017 @07:22PM (#15936485)
you need "anchors", which are banks or payment processors, to get your money in and out of the system.

You also need exchanges for cryptocurrency[1], so why not admit it from day one and build that concept into the system?

And maybe it's possible to graft a cryptocurrency onto SCP by using consensus to choose nodes which receive freshly "mined" currency.

[1] The mythical closed-loop Bitcoin economy ain't going to happen.

Re:MobileCoin: A New Cryptocurrency from Moxie Marlinspike by Vadoff on Saturday December 16, 2017 @08:14AM (#15939395)
Then why have a decentralized solution at all? Why not just make it like Paypal?