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Topic
Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Internet Required for retail purchases?
by
stompix
on 15/01/2018, 14:22:40 UTC
It is doubtful that even in the long-term future everyone is going to have internet on their smartphone.

Credit cards can work on either a phone line or internet, so it would be ubiquitous as opposed to bitcoin which cannot work on a phone line?

One hundred years at the beginning of the last century ago nobody was able to purchase an airline ticket, watch a tv show, use a credit card, make a mobile phone conversation or use the internet.
That doubt of yours reminds me of people arguing a man can't fly.

As for the second thing.
Do you know how credit cards work over a phone line?
You still must have a dedicated phone line! which in 99% of cases is costlier that internet access.

Besides, the technology behind the dial-up used for credit card process is so simple it can easily be adapted for bitcoin tx.