>  bitcoin's also electronic and doesn't involve handing over bills, but it does involve a greater degree of privacy and anonymity than credit

**WRONG**; rawdog bitcoin gives you neither better privacy nor grayer anonymity than data-sucker cheap credit, let alone debit cards.

let's not pretend it is 2014; every fintech startup that has gone beyond one "runway" has got feelers to the data brokerages.

adlai

A glib "bitcoin fixes this"  won't change anything. A lot of work must be done to show why bitcoin is different.

I agree, but for people angry about cashless options, it's at least a starting place. Obviously bitcoin's also electronic and doesn't involve handing over bills, but it does involve a greater degree of privacy and anonymity than credit cards, and that's a wedge.

(To be clear, I definitely don't mean we should glibly say "bitcoin fixes this," just that we should use this as a conversation starter.)

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When Cash Disappears, So Does Something Else

siggy47

>A glib "bitcoin fixes this"  won't change anything. A lot of work must be done to show why bitcoin is different.

I agree, but for people angry about cashless options, it's at least a starting place. Obviously bitcoin's also electronic and doesn't involve handing over bills, but it does involve a greater degree of privacy and anonymity than credit cards, and that's a wedge.

(To be clear, I definitely don't mean we should glibly say "bitcoin fixes this," just that we should use this as a conversation starter.)