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What's the pitch to the masses? "We make Bitcoin easy to use... and all you lose is anonymity and decentralization?"
by cs702 14y ago
What's the pitch to the masses? "We make Bitcoin easy to use... and all you lose is anonymity and decentralization?"
- icebraining 14y agoYou can't lose what you never had; the "masses" won't use the Bitcoin client and manage keys themselves anyway.
- cs702 14y agoicebraining: decentralization and optional anonymity are key selling points of Bitcoin; without these two features, it looks a lot like existing payment systems.
- icebraining 14y agoI know, my point is that those selling points are irrelevant to the masses, because to take advantage of them you need to run the Bitcoin client and manage your own keys, which most people won't do. So they can't "lose" anything. Now, as for why would you use a system like this instead of one based on conventional currencies, well, don't ask me!