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by xmaayy 1608 days ago
I think you can do test transaction off-chain, I think they're called test-nets and you can use them through many wallets, and even online IDE's[1]. Unfortunately, crypto is still at the stage where it's built for devs and technically minded individuals, and its pretty user hostile. Sending directly from wallet to wallet is a pretty low level thing to do, and generally people should be executing transactions through swaps or other DAPP's, which to me seems like we're working against the empowerment principle of crypto

[1] https://remix.ethereum.org/
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te_chris 1608 days ago
Look at NFTs. The empowerment pricnciples are being actively killed by millions of VC dollars. Opensea are nominally recording transactions on a blockchain - but none of the actual meat. Everything 'real' lives inside their centralised system.
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kylebenzle 1607 days ago
A LOT of people are doing it wrong but there are still good projects out there. The two that come to mind are Monero and Bitcoin Cash. Both still work as designed and have low fees and/or instant and/or anonymous transactions.
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