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Donask_1 | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Starbucks sucks. And i still dont understand how people stand to eat garbage. 

u missing something. With bitcoin u transact w people without anybody else with minimum fee (to serve as protection against double spend and as a service to be include on a ledger). 

if you have to pay like 50$ or 100$ to be include on a ledger u become more expensive than paypal or other middleman systems. Bitcoin become another fail project that need a middleman to transact. 

By the way are u dr banjo ?
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banjo | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 LOL - I totally agree on Starbucks - don't patronize them personally, but was using them as an analogy. 

My main point is BTC and layer 2s are evolving, and we can't expect everything to be pefect out of the gate - bu we can expect things to get better.

For now, I can see utility in Strike as a platform, and in Lightning (and in Liquid for that matter). We'll get there--just have to keep innovating.

(and no idea who dr banjo is, so a "no" to that question :))
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Donask_1 | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 So for convenience we urge people to use broken systems.

If those things happen more and more. Broken features after broken feature. What will happen ? 

Strike and Lightning have big broken gaps, the devs tend to let it happen on purpose and want coins lock in those systems. That not gonna happen for a lot of people. They will look for other way to transact, even if 1M  influencers  say no. 
Strike are kyc, work w banks. Lightning tend to cost a lot and are buggy. before jumping to conclusion do a little of research paypal vs strike, lightning 

Dr banjo is a character in futurama XD.