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Re:Ohio will accept Bitcoin for corporate tax payments via B... by 27182818284 on Sunday November 25, 2018 @01:59PM (#18528274)
That's a good point, and should be mentioned, but I think it is also important to remember that businesses "accept Visa for payments" via a middleman (e.g, Braintree or Stripe) and that is still considered the same as "accepting Visa" as far as the general public and shop owners are concerned.
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Re:Ohio will accept Bitcoin for corporate tax payments via B... by JumpCrisscross on Sunday November 25, 2018 @02:04PM (#18528304)
> and that is still considered the same as "accepting Visa" as far as the general public and shop owners are concerned

Which is itself accepting a payment network’s promises to deliver bank deposits to you which are, themselves, a promise by a bank to redeem to you electronic or physical dollars. Ohio is replacing the Visa layer with a Bitcoin layer; all else is the same.

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