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by drablyechoes 2950 days ago
> Users won't care whether or not they are using something decentralized

This is a good point, and it is demonstrably the case even among cryptocurrency users who have a coinbase wallet. Coinbase is not decentralized, and for a lot of users this is actually a nice feature because you can transfer BTC balance from one coinbase user to another without incurring any miner fee or waiting a long time for confirmations.

If most people who wanted to use bitcoin actually cared about decentralization, coinbase (and other similar services) would have virtually no users.

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> If most people who wanted to use bitcoin actually cared about decentralization, coinbase (and other similar services) would have virtually no users.

Or maybe Bitcoin isn't good enough just yet (e.g. Lightning)?