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Comment by shimonabi

4 days ago

It's not that WWW was quick, it's that Bitcoin is useless.

False, it was much more annoying to buy drugs online pre-crypto.

  • How did people do that before crypto?

    • Money in mailed in envelopes. Western Union. Prepaid credit cards. Stolen credit cards. Bank transfer to a legitimate business that funnels it to their drug empire.

For agent to agent payments, Bitcoin/Ethereum could be quite useful now, as traditional payment protocols and banks are not likely to provide decent APIs any time soon.