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Re:Why Decentralization Matters (2018) by PeterisP on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @03:39PM (#29397172)
No, you in El Salvador you can buy beer from a machine with a cell phone using Chivo, which is a local payment scheme with a centralized ledger that's just denominated in BTC.

You can send money to/from Chivo using Bitcoin; but the settlement of that beer purchase would not involve Bitcoin network at all.

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