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Re:Finality does not exist in payments by Qworg on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @02:58PM (#30351818)
Yes. In a narrow technological definition of "final", you're right. However, not in the societal or legal sense.
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Re:Finality does not exist in payments by woah on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @03:10PM (#30351954)
The definition of finality used by you and the author of the piece is so vague and all-encompassing as to be meaningless. There isn't really anything to debate other than semantics.

You could just as easily say that cash payments aren't final because you could lose your wallet after you put the cash in it, but using the example of Bitcoin and the federal government is going to get more clicks.

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Re:Finality does not exist in payments by ska on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @03:40PM (#30352379)
> There isn't really anything to debate other than semantics.

Wasn't the point that a certain amount of ambiguity around finality is the usual (and natural) state of payment systems?

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