Comment on Anon gives up on Bitcoin in 2010
merc@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks agoYou don’t need to hold it on an exchange, but you need an exchange. You need some place where you can find people who want to buy Argentine Pesos and sell Bitcoin so that you can buy Bitcoin and sell your Argentine Pesos.
cheap & fast international settlement
You think Bitcoin is cheap and fast?
doylio@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Certainly cheaper and faster than Western Union, but yeah it’s horribly slow by modern blockchain standards
merc@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Also slow compared to actual payment processing networks for real money.