Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

No, it's convenient because anyone can accept or transfer it without a middleman. It's a physical thing you just give to someone. You can't (reasonably) censor it or block it or sanction it without just disabling the whole currency.

I was just describing the fact that it's not some sort of crazy idea to pay bills using cash. If HN weren't full of 21 year olds we wouldn't even be having this chat, it's like these guys forgot that not even that long ago we just paid each other with envelopes at the end of the week/month.

Like, they're literally saying that you can't do X, where X is something that most of us did less than 50 years ago, and no we didn't spend half of our days running around.




The point is that it’s a huge pain as evidenced by the fact that nobody does it now that there is an alternative..not that it’s literally impossible.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: