[tor11]

> The number of times such an activity would be useful to me is zero.

what about sending money to someone far away? ever tried? or just living in a bubble using a single fiat to buy coffee

your limited use argument is tiresome. you can not send money to anyone you want with fiat. most can not send money to you. you are not free

[africanboy]

do you really believe that people never sent money abroad before bitcoins?

my grandgranparent sent money back home to Italy from the US in 1912...

[tor12]

do you really believe that bitcoin or similar is not superior in this use case than whatever they did back then?

[africanboy]

yes, I do.

my grandgrandmother had no electricity, no running water, could not read, but could use that money.

now do the same with bitcoins.

anyway this sentence

> you can not send money to anyone you want with fiat

is not true.

I don't know what bubble you live in, but the opposite is true: you can't send bitcoins to anyone you want.

[tor12]

it is easy to test this you know. send yourself something when abroad or from foreign bank. at the same time send some bitcoin. see what arrives first or at all.

> I don't know what bubble you live in, but the opposite is true: you can't send bitcoins to anyone you want.

the opposite to "you can not send money to anyone you want with fiat" is "you can send money to anyone you want with fiat". which is false. hence initial statement is true. there is no bubble here.

friendly advice. read more.

[africanboy]

> friendly advice. read more

thanks, I am a software engineer with 30 years of working experience, still find bitcoins the most obtuse way to send money, first of all because bitcoins are not money, secondly because 100% of those I would send money to don't know anything about bitcoins (why would they care?) and last but not least because it's easier and cheaper to convert money to gold and ship the gold (assuming I don't want to send real money)

buying prepaid credit is also an option, it works everywhere bitcoins work and it's free, immediate and it's money, directly spendable on goods and services

hell, even shipping banknotes in an envelope is better than sending bitcoins!

bitcoins are useless for this use case to anyone who really wants to send money to someone they care about

> "you can send money to anyone you want with fiat". which is false.

it's not.

I can send fiat money to anyone I want (emphasis on I)

but to prove me wrong you can send a couple bitcoins to my mom and I'll show you she doesn't know what to do with them.

if you're interested in proving me wrong, I can give you her wallet address.

in the end ask yourself this: why North Korea is disconnected from internet, but allows bitcoins?

are bitcoins really pro people and against oppressive regimes?

p.s. as much as I don't care about burn accounts, yours is actually really suspicious...