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A BTC wallet is infinitely more user friendly than a banking website that only works in chrome xor firefox and constantly locks you out for reasons they don't w

A BTC wallet is infinitely more user friendly than a banking website that only works in chrome xor firefox and constantly locks you out for reasons they don't want you to know about and severely limits your transfer sizes. If you do EFT and wait between 3 and 10 days each time, even bitcoin is better than this. Centralized web is horrible and dead. Literally _anything_ is a better alternative. The user can be convinced to adopt superior tech even if he does not explicitly know the problems. It just has to feel better. > it doesn't need to be technically elegant, but user-facing elegant. dont worry bro. the "set user = happy" voodoo dance has already been done. every cryptocoin wallet is a browser plugin or mobile app with 90% of code for themeing with all the bugs and slowness smartcrap/web users are accustomed to. you are even discouraged from rnunning yoyr own node

paulryanrogers 5y ago
> A BTC wallet is infinitely more user friendly than a banking website... Until there is fraud, a dispute, or an innocent mistake.
- aptidude187 5y ago
  Same for traditional banking + if you happen to be a journalist ( or whatever ) living under an oppressive regime, they can freeze your assets on a whim, because you criticised the wrong people. If someone still prefers trusting a central authority, for whatever reason, they can still use something like coinbase.
  - lern_too_spel 5y ago
    If you're living under an oppressive regime, they can freeze turning your crypto into state-approved currency at a whim, and you have the same problem.
- p2p_astroturf 5y ago
  You mean scammed with a bad or not shipped product? what is "fraud"? this is a statist buzzword. cryptocoins literally defend against all the bullshit i hate banks for: - if i give someone an address, they can withdraw money from me - if i eat pizza with someone, they can recover my bank account (since they ask obscure trivial like "how much and where did you last spend money at") - company #30 that asked for my ID can just use my ID to get my bank account - if i click two buttons too fast (on the website, or at the ATM), they will freeze my account for "hacking attempt" - they record my voice on the phone to "recognize" me, yet will still give out my account to some random person for some bullshit reason but aahhh, i see you're from the "everyone is an idiot and needs a personal cop to protect themselves from themselves" school of thought. edit: btw your idea doesn't even work. corpos who pretend to be "knowing" every user for their security literally just have 1 person for 10000 customers, who gets replaced monthly, and 100% of the time when you go in, they will not be able to correctly identify if the client is you or not

paulryanrogers 5y ago

> A BTC wallet is infinitely more user friendly than a banking website... Until there is fraud, a dispute, or an innocent mistake.

aptidude187 5y ago
Same for traditional banking + if you happen to be a journalist ( or whatever ) living under an oppressive regime, they can freeze your assets on a whim, because you criticised the wrong people. If someone still prefers trusting a central authority, for whatever reason, they can still use something like coinbase.
- lern_too_spel 5y ago
  If you're living under an oppressive regime, they can freeze turning your crypto into state-approved currency at a whim, and you have the same problem.
p2p_astroturf 5y ago
You mean scammed with a bad or not shipped product? what is "fraud"? this is a statist buzzword. cryptocoins literally defend against all the bullshit i hate banks for: - if i give someone an address, they can withdraw money from me - if i eat pizza with someone, they can recover my bank account (since they ask obscure trivial like "how much and where did you last spend money at") - company #30 that asked for my ID can just use my ID to get my bank account - if i click two buttons too fast (on the website, or at the ATM), they will freeze my account for "hacking attempt" - they record my voice on the phone to "recognize" me, yet will still give out my account to some random person for some bullshit reason but aahhh, i see you're from the "everyone is an idiot and needs a personal cop to protect themselves from themselves" school of thought. edit: btw your idea doesn't even work. corpos who pretend to be "knowing" every user for their security literally just have 1 person for 10000 customers, who gets replaced monthly, and 100% of the time when you go in, they will not be able to correctly identify if the client is you or not