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> and I'm pretty confident being a locally popular trading commodity amongst edge communities is not the central goal for bitcoin Given the transaction fees ne

> and I'm pretty confident being a locally popular trading commodity amongst edge communities is not the central goal for bitcoin Given the transaction fees needed for a distributed-enough network, and the bureaucracy needed when trading, it is not very useful as a currency, at least not for small payments, excluding Lightning. So it's a commodity.

thebean11 5y ago
Excluding lightning and layer 2 solutions like rollups. Why would you make those exclusions though?
- danuker 5y ago
  The reason is they are not yet accepted in many places, though in fairness, they seem to grow a lot.