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Re:Why Solana Was Decimated by Bankman-Fried’s Downfall by biscottigelato on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @08:58PM (#34168577)
If you don't count Bitcoin that's true.

Bitcoin is used as a tool against French colonial CFA Franc in Africa. A a lifeline to access the outside financial world for citizens of countries under sanction.

https://iharare.com/african-countries-are-no-strangers-to-th...

Re:Why Solana Was Decimated by Bankman-Fried’s Downfall by Retric on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @09:40PM (#34168819)
All of that added up to a trivial number of useful transactions which should be obvious when you consider how few transactions per day the protocol could handle globally and how expensive transaction fees often became.
Re:Why Solana Was Decimated by Bankman-Fried’s Downfall by oneoff786 on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @09:30PM (#34168756)
The fact that some people have a valid use case does not refute my claim
Re:Why Solana Was Decimated by Bankman-Fried’s Downfall by hn_zorba on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @10:53PM (#34169334)
There's no mention of CFA Francs in that article? Also the bitcoin experiment that this article briefly talks about has since become a failure - though that's probably more on the incompetence of the rollout than bitcoin.
Re:Why Solana Was Decimated by Bankman-Fried’s Downfall by AnAfrican on Thursday December 29, 2022 @03:31AM (#34170682)
>Bitcoin is used as a tool against French colonial CFA Franc in Africa.

That's a new one. Sure there are some crypto enthusiasts/ scammers (those are not necessarily the same people) trying to push some convoluted argument related to the CFA but this is super niche at best. And furthermore, if anyone would actually use crypto in the CFA area, it would be as a mean to circumvent the exchange control and acquire Euros/Dollars. That's not exactly fighting "colonial money", is it ?