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by vesak 3255 days ago
What is less clear, however, is the capability of the traditional payment networks to improve. Before bitcoin et al, they might have had no reason to. I don't find it very likely that the 60 days transaction speed, for instance, is unfixable.

Some people just needs to get off their asses and dive deep into some horrific legacy code and/or processes and fix or rewrite them. If they are pushed hard enough, they'll do it.