[Scarblac]

> Imagine walking in to a Starbucks café, order a cup of coffee, digitally signing a payment transaction on your mobile or laptop and then wait for it to be confirmed by the Blockchain while enjoying the hot cup of coffee you have ordered.

You could do the the exact same thing now with credit cards, except the waiting. And then you could get your money back if the coffee sucked, and you wouldn't lose all your money if someone happened to steal your private key .

[hopfog]

Pretty sure it was sarcasm.

[wool_gather]

It's important to keep Poe's law in mind when you're posting plain-text parody; you don't have tone of voice and body language to help convey your real intent.

[Scarblac]

Probably, but it's hard to tell in this debate where believers constantly have to rely on forgetting about existing technology completely.