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> Nobody was going to wait 30 min for a transaction to complete

Depends on the transaction. To buy coffee? Of course not, but there are transactions that can take hours or days to clear.

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Yeah, 30 min for a BTC tx which is basically guaranteed to go through is amazing compared to the shitfest that is SWIFT.

If people only knew that a card transaction is the equivalent of a 0 confirmation transaction between two “trust me bro” parties and that said card transaction takes days and a lot of institutional resources to clear…

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