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> If the current financial system stopped working and for some reason we needed to actually use Bitcoin to pay stuff, it would not be possible.

This is... not true [1]. We'd need to use something like the Lightning Network. The traditional financial system also has layers build on top of it, so it makes sense that you wouldn't only use the Bitcoin base layer.

[1] https://voltage.cloud/blog/bitcoin-education/how-many-transa...

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