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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: bitcoin is failing in replacing fiat in physical shops
by
Robert Paulson
on 14/02/2014, 18:25:51 UTC
and as such because its deposited(preconfirmed) into a company that other businesses will trust. then INSTANT transactions can occur. either onchain or offchain.

offchain transactions are not bitcoin.
any business which will accept numbers stored in some companies database as bitcoin is basically using that company as a bank.
history shows that eventually this bank company will start issuing more database bitcoins then there are actual bitcoins on the block chain (e.g fractional reserve).