113 sats \ 5 replies \ @Undisciplined 12 Jul \ on: On A Bitcoin Standard - Your Phone Dies - How Do You Pay? bitcoin
I know people have proposed various solutions for various situations, but I think there will always be a place for physical specie.
Can bitcoin ever take a functional physical form? That's a question I don't know the answer to.
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211 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek 12 Jul freebie
Can bitcoin ever take a functional physical form? That's a question I don't know the answer to.
You can pay offline with ecash. But the receiver has to be online to verify the ecash note wasn't spend already.
But you could argue that's not bitcoin, only a bitcoin IOU.
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13 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 12 Jul
That’s the type of thing I’m thinking of. What about when the receiver is the one offline, though?
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34 sats \ 0 replies \ @zklsbn 12 Jul
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @AJ1992 12 Jul
You mean in the form of coins or notes? That would defeat the whole purpose of Bitcoin..
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 12 Jul
How does that defeat the whole purpose of Bitcoin?
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