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Re:In Defense of Bitcoin Maximalism by kragen on Friday April 01, 2022 @10:42AM (#30878511)
I know a lot of "those people" who are using Bitcoin already, but I would never refer to unbanked people as "those people," being for all practical purposes one of them. We mostly aren't using it safely (a lot of us don't know the difference between Binance and Bitcoin) but we are using it.

The last transaction fee I paid was 33ยข, and the average transaction in the last Bitcoin block was 913 bytes, so your internet access speed isn't an obstacle to sending a transaction as long as it's above about 20 bits per second; if you want to run a full node you need at least 17000 bits per second of internet access unless you're using the Blockstream satellite.

Typically I pay US$5 a month for cellphone internet access when I have it, but more commonly I use Wi-Fi in various places.

Re:In Defense of Bitcoin Maximalism by aaaaaaaaata on Saturday April 02, 2022 @09:13AM (#30888003)
How long before there's safe tech for relaying your transactions via other people's connections, as a cooperative distributed mesh, to improve confirmation and delivery speed of your own packets?
Re:In Defense of Bitcoin Maximalism by kragen on Saturday April 02, 2022 @12:44PM (#30889570)
That's been part of Bitcoin since it was invented in 02008.