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Re:Visa confirms Coinbase wasn’t at fault for overcharging u... by DennisP on Sunday February 18, 2018 @11:04AM (#16406648)
> without engaging the incumbents, the decentralized system would have absorbed his money and given him nothing

I don't see how that follows, given that the failure was at VISA, a centralized system, in its interaction with Coinbase, another centralized system. The decentralized cryptocurrencies continue to work as designed.

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Re:Visa confirms Coinbase wasn’t at fault for overcharging u... by spookthesunset on Sunday February 18, 2018 @06:21PM (#16409507)
> The decentralized cryptocurrencies continue to work as designed.

Well then they aren't very well designed, are they... I mean, if they don't interface with the real world in a workable way, who's at fault?

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