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Re:I Wasted 8 Years of My Life in Crypto by derriz on Monday December 08, 2025 @02:36AM (#46189478)
How exactly can you send a billion dollars to someone in Uganda using Bitcoin?

Purchase and sale of bitcoin is highly regulated and obviously tracked - and the blockchain itself provides little privacy - I’m guessing state-level actors have already attached identities to most of the wallet addresses out there.

So if I hand you access to $1 billion dollars - cash or in a bank account - how could I practically get $1 billion dollars to an individual in Uganda so that they could spend the dollars?

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Re:I Wasted 8 Years of My Life in Crypto by solumunus on Monday December 08, 2025 @03:18AM (#46189712)
There are people that hold billions in Bitcoin and they could send it to someone in Uganda without friction, do you dispute this? You’re being pedantic, stick to the hypothetical. Change the example to $1,000 and yes it’s trivial to do and will be cheaper and quicker than using traditional systems.
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