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I can already use the us dollar easily online.
by mosdl 5y ago
I can already use the us dollar easily online.
- lowkey 5y agoYes, but you likely live in a first-world country with generous options for banking. Bitcoin can serve anyone anywhere, regardless if they live in a privileged country or not. Try using your USD bank to send/receive money as a citizen of Iran or Libya or Nigeria. There are over 1 billion unbanked in the world today. They cannot use the US dollar easily online.
- SavantIdiot 5y agoThis is the fallback argument crypto enthusiasts use when their primary arguments fail. I'd like to learn more about the truth to this claim.
- lowkey 5y agoI work on an international team and 2 of our devs are based in Nigeria. Nigeria currently suffers from 16% annual inflation and so the people have flocked to crypto as a store of value. Over 20% of the population uses cryptocurrencies. There are many more examples including Venezuela, Iran, the West Bank, and El Salvador.
- mosdl 5y agoYou still need internet and some device to use crypto. Many don't have that.
- lowkey 5y agoConsider that many more have internet and a smartphone than a bank account. There are over 1 billion unbanked in the world, many of those have internet and smartphones. You would be surprised at the spread of smartphones amongst the world's poor - much greater than the prevalence of bank accounts with FDIC insurance or the equivalent.
- rglullis 5y agoNow to go Argentina and dare to say the same thing. Or go sell something with a high risk of fraud and see how how much the credit card companies will charge you.