>Where by "instantly" you mean "takes at least an hour and costs a fortune"? No. I could email the private keys for any amount of bitcoin to anyone on earth in

>Where by "instantly" you mean "takes at least an hour and costs a fortune"? No. I could email the private keys for any amount of bitcoin to anyone on earth instantly. Or do it with morse code over a telegraph...or smoke signals, it doesn't matter. Transactions on the blockchain are a different issue entirely.