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Re:Ethereum: A number of hard forks turn out to be scams by DoctorOetker on Thursday January 10, 2019 @06:41PM (#18879629)
Similarily email is irreversible. Sure some providers will stall your email so you have a period of time to cancel/edit the email...

Nothing prevents a crypto client from similarily stalling a payment until you are sure you want to pay...

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Re:Ethereum: A number of hard forks turn out to be scams by UncleEntity on Thursday January 10, 2019 @09:15PM (#18880484)
> Nothing prevents a crypto client from similarily stalling a payment until you are sure you want to pay...

...and then all you need is fraud protection, monthly billing and airline miles and you've invented the credit card.

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