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89 sats \ 3 replies \ @flat24 27 Dec \ on: Why can't I pay with Lightning online, when cards are so bad? lightning
A totally solid argument for why it is a torture to make a payment by card, and in reality with any part of traditional banking it is a pain in the ass.
A while ago I read an experience of a stacker, who commented how his wife who is Russian and does not use bitcoin, commented how she did to send money to Russia to help her parents, and in doing so she pays a commission of €80 per transfer so that the money can arrive by the traditional way (banking)
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Bitcoin helps break the trap. (THE SYSTEM) although Bitcoin doesn't really seek to break anything. Those who are happy inside the trap are free to remain there in perpetuity.
Bitcoin is here, it's to help us live more peacefully and safely in parallel to the trap and those who live in it.
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this was me lol
the issue was that my mother-in-law collects my wife's rent and has to send it and didn't want to use btc or any crypto, hence we were getting rammed by fees (which went from 80 up to 160!) after which, she gave in and got her 16 year old nephew to do a p2p usdt transaction.
people with legacy thinking is the issue, most businesses themselves don't even know about bitcoin, other than what they read in the papers, it wouldn't even occur to them to offer any payment other than fiat.
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