> A key difference here is that if you screw up your payment in Thailand, you have legal recourse to reclaim your funds. The legal systems are pretty important

> A key difference here is that if you screw up your payment in Thailand, you have legal recourse to reclaim your funds. The legal systems are pretty important pieces of technology that solve real practical problems. > If I send money to the wrong Bitcoin address, nobody can help me with that. Bitcoin is a bit like introducing an electric car without seats, seatbelts, or a windshield. Sure there's some innovative bits there, but the hype forgets it's missing very important features. It's even more astounding that the hype men sometimes try to spin the lack of those features into a selling point.