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by judge2020 1334 days ago
And yet when you send via Bitcoin, you're putting 100% trust in them following through on fulfilling their end of the deal. Only NFTs/smart contracts fix this, but for them to affect things in the real world you either need society or some oracle to use that smart contract as a source of truth.
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Which means you have to actually have discernment and encourages the individual to build long-term relationships, not transactional ones.

It's a bit abstract/esoteric, but using something like Bitcoin would re-humanize commerce vs the increasingly transactional nature of the world enabled by fiat/printing.

Yeah precisely. I think you’ve made the mistake of thinking we’re on opposite sides of the argument.