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Re:Send Money to Friends in Messenger by vectorpush on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @10:36PM (#9223262)
What you call "FUD", the rest of the world calls "reality". Bitcoin is currently impractical as money, that's just a fact. The few businesses that accept bitcoin aren't even close to enough to make bitcoin practical for every day needs.
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Re:Send Money to Friends in Messenger by grubles on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @11:39PM (#9223467)
I'm not saying bitcoin is practical as money. I'm saying it is practical as a payment system, if anything. Just look at the gigantic $100,000,000 bitcoin transactions that happen and only pay a $0.20 or so fee.

Besides that, bitcoin is so profoundly different than traditional money systems it can't possibly be practical as money so soon. It shouldn't be practical as money so soon, but it is making progress.

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