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by rodgerd 1962 days ago
Most countries do not settle in real-time, or even close to it.

Even ones moving towards it are still allowing 5 - 15 minute windows on settlement.

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I would go even further. If I am building a next gen electronic wallet (which happens to be a side project of mine) I’d build in a full week of escrow-like mechanism by default.