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Re:Send Money to Friends in Messenger by puranjay on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @03:56PM (#9220889)
Almost no one outside of my techie friends know about Bitcoin. Even fewer understand how it works, so that's a no go.
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Re:Send Money to Friends in Messenger by stream_fusion on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @06:06PM (#9221915)
Not knowing the technical, or legal arrangements of SWIFT doesn't prevent one from making a traditional international wire-transfer.
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Re:Send Money to Friends in Messenger by grubles on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @04:04PM (#9220968)
My 70 year old dad can use bitcoin. I'm sure your friends can learn.
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Re:Send Money to Friends in Messenger by Mahn on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @05:03PM (#9221447)
Your 70 year old dad is an exception in a sea of people that don't want to learn.
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Re:Send Money to Friends in Messenger by grubles on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @09:26PM (#9222978)
One comedian put it this way: You can't fix stupid.

Point being: Learning is a lifelong pursuit, and if you don't want to learn then you will be left behind using Facebook Messenger to send money. Kidding, but you hopefully get the gist.

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Re:Send Money to Friends in Messenger by what_ever on Thursday March 19, 2015 @10:54AM (#9232328)
But at what expense? The existing system is not that broken for majority of the world so why should they care about learning this?
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Re:Send Money to Friends in Messenger by aboutus on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @09:41AM (#9225340)
That will change. Cryptocurrencies are here to stay. There is no undoing decentralized commerce. It will change the world in ways we can hardly fathom.
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