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Near the entire economy paying a % rent to these couple companies is unfair. Cryptocurrency can remove these middlemen, however, they're missing some important
by RichardHeart 6y ago
Near the entire economy paying a % rent to these couple companies is unfair. Cryptocurrency can remove these middlemen, however, they're missing some important features. 1. Dispute resolution. 2. Recurring billing. When you see how expensive it is to do #1, credit cards start to look like a wonderful deal.
Someone is going to say:
Micropayments (it's never worked.)
Pre-auth'd lower amounts retailers can pull from you (might work.)
Crypto-escrow (Any place that used to do it has gone out of business I beleive.)
Too volatile: (Peer to Peer stable coins, or "trusted" stable coins protected by laws instead of code address this.)
Thus, peer to peer open source value transfer is the minimum amount of middlemen possible, but is crippled by regulatory overhead at the end points, giving the incumbents entrenched advantage. Caveat: I founded a cryptocurrency.