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by dllthomas 4313 days ago
"I don't know why you mention paper currencies and gold when most money today is transferred electronically, in a far more efficient way than Bitcoins."

Revenues of Brink's alone, sayeth Google, are roughly $4 billion. My understanding is that a substantive portion of that represents cost of transporting cash and gold, and of course they are only one of several such companies.