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>With that sentence, I meant that bankless people suffer hardship because they can't get access to basic banking services like savings accounts, currency exchanges, and money lending.

That's exactly who I'm talking about. And I think this will be the group who adopts Bitcoin, because there's a lot of friction in that market. Bitcoin is being seeing major adoption by markets with significant friction (silk road -> gambling sites -> ?).

>While it's true that bitcoin doesn't have a central monetary authority, you still need a gateway to exchange currency for BTC (currency exchange), some way to safely store your private keys (savings accounts), and lenders.

I agree that there will be a transition period.

No comment on my call for mutual respect?




Sorry, just saw this - am I being at all disrespectful?

I had no intention of doing anything other than striking up a conversation with people with a different viewpoint and more information than me.




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