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by antidesitter 2878 days ago
What the majority of people are currently using is irrelevant. The whole topic of this thread is creating decentralized markets, and you're saying the fact that these payment processors are centralized doesn't matter. That doesn't make any sense.
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It sounds like a good compromise would be to allow people to check out with a credit card/paypal and have an instant conversion to BTC behind the scenes, maybe with a 2% fee or something.
"What the majority of people are currently using is irrelevant. "

Not if you actually want your marketplace to be able to, you know, sell stuff to people.

I see you conveniently ignored the rest of my comment.