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Someone please tell Patrick about bitcoin... Jk, he works for stripe/banks so he has to turn a blind eye. Feels like I'm watching Kodak resisting the digital ca

• theptip 5y ago
  Bitcoin lacks reversibility, which turns out to be a necessary property for a payments network to cover all use cases. This (as well as expensive fees, until lightning, and wild price fluctuations) is why it never really caught on as a SWIFT/Western Union replacement.