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by fruitzome 3008 days ago
A lot of the world lives on less than $2 a day.

You can buy a cheap refurbished Android phone for $5.

And you have SMS cointext.io to transact for instance.

You do not need a hardware wallet, only to memorize the 12 word seed phrase.

Just look at the set of users who have phones without adequate banking. You will see this is measured in the billions of people.

The best hope to lift people out of poverty is for us to transact and deal with these people.
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KirinDave 3008 days ago
The amount of your transactions doesn't matter. If chains can't give people individual transactions in a trustless environment WITHOUT just recreating a new set of banking networks to bridge you onto the lightning network, all we've done is rotate the moneyhandlers.

Maybe that's great for your pocketbook. To me it seems pointless and worthy of scorn.

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