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While other treat bitcoin as an investment, I treat it as a way to send money without getting censored and without supporting PayPal and VISA/MasterCard. It’s a
by mccorrinall 4y ago
While other treat bitcoin as an investment, I treat it as a way to send money without getting censored and without supporting PayPal and VISA/MasterCard. It’s an idealistic thing (which is probably the reason why I only pay products worth 100-200$/month in BTC. I obviously don’t pay my rent, my car etc in BTC).
For me it’s just an alternative to cash, which I also use for smaller purchases — cash is „gelebte Freiheit“.
Honestly, I’d also prefer to use GNU Taler instead of bitcoin, but unfortunately GNU Taler never gained any traction.
- randomhodler84 4y agoNever liked the one way privacy of it, and it’s not a coin. It also adds nothing you don’t get already in the underlying cryptocurrencies. It’s a payment protocol for arbitrary assets. You can pay in Bitcoin via Taler. I don’t think it will gain traction. The best payment protocol for Bitcoin today is Lightning Network, and is as open, and more sophisticated than GNU Taler ever was. Yes, I ack that BTC is pubkeyhash and scripthash pseudononymous are not private.