[me551ah]

I'm from India, one of the most populous countries in the world. And we have instant online transfers with no transaction fee and it's called UPI.

[rabite]

That's not what we were discussing. Here's your quote:

> Crypto payments take much longer time than traditional credit card ones

Everyone in India can process an American credit card? Indians are magically immune from political censorship on the basis of the payment card associations?

[kevinak]

Is everyone in India banked? How do you transfer money outside of the India? Can you do that insta fly with UPI as well?

There are more countries than India, I’d suggest maybe taking a look at South America, Africa and Asia.

[ipython]

This argument always intrigued me. Once you point out cryptocurrencies don’t actually solve the unbanked problem for poor people, then the use case immediately shifts to “well have you tried to move seven figures between countries”?

By the way many African countries have a robust mobile phone based banking infrastructure. Nothing to do with cryptocurrency. See https://qz.com/africa/2161960/gsma-70-percent-of-the-worlds-... for example.