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 But it didn't use Bitcoin and we all know THAT is the real threat 
 It didn’t use anything. Users were free to transact amongst each other without Craigslist even being aware of it. Kind of brilliant and that was really Ross’s downfall. He built a centralized marketplace when the payments should have always taken place directly peer-to-peer, but the technical ability to do that safely and eliminate fraud wasn’t available yet.