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> Has anyone made any real progress in solving this problem? Bitcoin micro-transactions via lightning: http://lightning.network http://lightning.network
by kobeya 9y ago
> Has anyone made any real progress in solving this problem?
Bitcoin micro-transactions via lightning:
http://lightning.network http://lightning.network
- KyeRussell 9y ago> real progress Let's not pretend that consumer-facing cryptocurrency-backed anything is little more than something for speculators, libertarians, and nerds.
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- chx 9y agoDon't bother, the HN crowd will downvote this hard, bitter truth. I had this conversation N times, my argument is roughly this: "There's no legit use of bitcoin. Main usages are a) pyramid-like hold-and-hype b) illegal money transfers out of China. No, ordinary people don't want to use it for international transfer because you need to go through hops to get Bitcoin on the sender end, even worse the receiver needs to do something to get money and at the end of the day you have no idea how much money the receiver actually gets. And let's not even discuss outsourcing the security from banks to customers."
- sli 9y agoThe community here is much more reasonable than, say, reddit. Notice the comment hasn't been killed as you expected it would. People here understand pretty well the barrier between cryptocurrency and "regular people."
- chx 9y agoWant me to collect the links of my downvoted comments which said this exact same thing?