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>By the way, you can transfer cash without any intermediaries. You literally just hand it over.

Why would you want that? What happens if you have a fraudulent transaction? How is it reversed? What about coercion? Blackmail, etc.

[_m8fo]

Yeah, that's why you use escrow, or an intermediary service. By the way, I never claimed you should use cash. In fact, most of the criticism I have towards Bitcoin also applies to cash, as you've sarcastically pointed out.