> Though it's actually quite painful, slow, expensive, and lacks all of the benefits of traditional transactions so everyone avoids it if possible. It’s really

> Though it's actually quite painful, slow, expensive, and lacks all of the benefits of traditional transactions so everyone avoids it if possible. It’s really not. For several years, paying with crypto has been faster and easier than credit card or PayPal. No arbitrary blocks, guessing traffic lights, aligning shipping and billing names and zip codes, figuring which card will work for what country and payment processor, biyearly renewals, SMS confirmations, risk of having it abused despite having good opsec, being on the phone with PayPal, etc etc. I just open my wallet, unlock it used my preferred method, [scan a qr code/copy-paste something], click OK, done. I understand that many people on HN get profiled “white” enough by “the algorithms” to not have to experience the Kafkaesque frustration of the status quo. For the rest of us, cryptocurrency is faster, easier, and sometimes cheaper. Today.