• @workerONE
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    4 hours ago

    Bitcoin isn’t good for making little purchases, firstly because it takes so long to get confirmations, if each block is 10 minutes and you need like 3 blocks to consider it confirmed that’s 30 minutes. But that ties into the second issue which is that you probably don’t want millions of tiny transactions on the Blockchain, you want them processed off-chain and then settled in bulk (to the Blockchain) periodically as a single transaction.

    • @Evotech
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      03 hours ago

      That’s the same way as the economic system works though

      Each bank and creditor keeps track of if what they owe each other and then they settle the balancebetween them periodically (depends on the country)

      If assume you could do something similar with bitcoin, but you would need an overlay