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How is it opposite. In my mind they all fall under the same libertarian fantasy umbrella.

The post mentioned the idea of casually sending a billion dollars. Was that ever possible with Bitcoin? AFAIK it's less ergonomic to send money using Bitcoin than it is using traditional banking.

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It pretty easy. I personally think it’s much easier than in traditional banking.

The hard part is that for day to day things you still need an on ramp and off ramp, but that is changing as merchants accept crypto directly.

Messing with crypto is in no way easier than traditional banking. And traditional banking has guarantees that crypto does not.

Sending funds overseas is much easier with crypto than with traditional banking.

For the most part all I need is an address. That’s it. Then it takes a couple minutes to transfer - done!

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