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by Nursie 2273 days ago
Yes, I've heard of bitpesa, it's not even an m-pesa alternative or competitor (as declared by its founder), it's an international remittance product and cryptocurrency exchange, AFAICT and one thing we know is that, despite crowing from folks such as yourselves, international remittance has failed to embrace cryptocurrency in any significant volume because (as in basically every other arena) cryptocurrency doesn't actually address any problems people actually have, and introduces a whole load more.

Sure you can create multisig addresses, introducing more points of trust. And if you're reintroducing more points of trust, the whole thing becomes... well, pointless, we already have those systems, they work well and are regulated well. Like I said, "trustlessness" is a lie, you're just moving trust around the system in various ways.

Honestly, you read like a propaganda machine.