> If you go the traditional route, you will always have a company in the middle, taking their cut or selling you out behind the scenes.
The free market sure seems to be okay with this. Those middle men provide valuable services like chargebacks, lines of credit, the ability to quickly provide large sums of money without using wheelbarrows to cart them around.
> I'm on the hype train.
You, and almost every other blockchain proponent are so blinded by hype and greed you can't see the very real, very fundamental flaws in bitcoin and "the blockchain". Bitcoin attracts the perfect intersection of people who don't understand economics, math, computer science, finance, business, sociology, or politics. Bitcoin is deeply flawed in all those areas.
The free market sure seems to be okay with this. Those middle men provide valuable services like chargebacks, lines of credit, the ability to quickly provide large sums of money without using wheelbarrows to cart them around.
> I'm on the hype train.
You, and almost every other blockchain proponent are so blinded by hype and greed you can't see the very real, very fundamental flaws in bitcoin and "the blockchain". Bitcoin attracts the perfect intersection of people who don't understand economics, math, computer science, finance, business, sociology, or politics. Bitcoin is deeply flawed in all those areas.