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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @denlillaapan 21 Oct \ parent \ on: The Distributional Consequences Of Bitcoin bitcoin

lmao.

Yeah I haven't read the paper yet and I don't know exactly what "normal credit transfer" means... but it makes me think of a bank loan, or a mortgage, which sure as hell has trusted third parties and a promised mediation mechanism.

I usually try to steelman whatever I read, but it might be hard to do it for this one :)

Indeed. I kinda of need to take a breather and do something else every other page, cuz this is just mind-numbingly incompetent.

I thiiiink they mean a specific type of sale/transfer via PayPal, that doesn't have access to mediation services something-something. But PayPal is like L3 of the dollar system, so don't understand why that would be at all relevant

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @denlillaapan 21 Oct

next gem: "The problem of double-spending is hardly an issue in payments (because it is generally solved without particular difficulties, and certainly with far less social cost than those incurred in the solution offered by Bitcoin)"

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @denlillaapan 21 Oct

OK, this is a funny typo.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 21 Oct

To be fair, one can be excused for mistaking the Bitcoin Conference for a religious conversion experience :)