Re: Walmart Plans Instant Bank Payments, Cutting Out Card Networks

Quote from: avikz on Today at 05:28:56 AM

Quote from: larry_vw_1955 on September 21, 2024, 11:19:38 AM

The death of bitcoin. No real world use case to buy things from a major retailer. Walmart knows that taking payments in BTC would be even WORSE than paying merchant processing fees...

Did Bitcoin flourish because some big retailers in US started accepting them? What a stupid statement!

Bitcoin is not a great option for merchant payments. It takes time but it also protects your privacy. Bitcoin didn't grow just because it is accepted by the big retailers. It grew because of the community backing it and its privacy.

At least in the USA privacy with bitcoin is just an ILLUSION. Unless you plan to break the law. You have to come up with a more compelling reason than "privacy" there is no privacy from the IRS.

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Bitcoin is a very different ball game!

It's a failed ballgame as far as performing some sort of fiat replacement that I could use in my daily life. Every single cryptocurrency is the same in that regard: failure!

Enjoy hodling that's what I think 99.99% of you guys use it for. Not much of a use case. Lips sealed