Cryptocurrency means it can be completely peer to peer and not reliant on any payment processing platforms, and with multisig is allows for powerful escrow as well.
I understand the "benefits" of cryptocurrency. They're all outweighed by people wanting their money to have a stable value so they can realistically budget their real life expenses. In the bubble cryptocurrency nuts live in where they don't have to worry about real world problems like carefully budgeting their paychecks, it might work, but software like OpenBazaar crashes right into reality.
On what basis do you make that accusation? And how does supporting cryptocurrency preclude them from solving "real problems", whatever that means?
Why is it the "wrong" solution to making a decentralized marketplace? What's the "right" solution?
And how is this a decentralized marketplace?
Why take the risk, when we can handle it ourselves?
How do credit/debit cards satisfy the proposition of a decentralized marketplace?
They're something that most people are actually using, allowing the marketplace to actually conduct commerce and exist.
And again, how do credit/debit cards—which are centralized systems—satisfy the proposition of a decentralized market?
"And again, how do credit/debit cards—which are centralized systems—satisfy the proposition of a decentralized market?"
They allow the market to actually exist, by using something that the people are actually using.
But a decentralized market does exist with cryptocurrencies.
And credit/debit cards aren’t decentralized.
Doesn't matter. That's what the majority of people are using; so if you want the marketplace to actually be able to serve people, and get them to actually buy stuff, you need to support them.
Not if you actually want your marketplace to be able to, you know, sell stuff to people.
Clearly not for the people using it right now.
What benefit does this actually give me in my everyday life where I don’t need to buy toilet paper anonymously?
Are you asking why someone would want to transact anonymously?
People did. I remember reading those kinds of comments.
It's likely that the most interesting things in cryptocurrency will be introduced during the crypto-recession. Right now there is too much noise.