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Seems to me that most peoples' points is that Bitcoin solves problems that most people do not have.

Everyone who has ever dealt with a bank has a problem that Bitcoin can solve, even if they don't realize it yet.



Can you list one? I don't want to "be my own bank," as the advocates so cheerfully put it. I stopped working at a bank for a reason.


How about this one, which affected my own business?

http://www.peaktopeak.org/modules/groups/homepagefiles/cms/9... (1 MB .PDF)

The reality is that this was a very poorly implemented and marketed attempt on Chase's part to herd its business customers into accounts with higher fees. But who has time to deconstruct their bank's motivations when they decide to jerk their customers around, with or without a government mandate to do so?


That's unfortunate but I have not run into that problem. Your claim was that everyone who has dealt with bank has had a problem Bitcoin has solved. You provided a problem that is specific to people with business accounts at a certain bank. I cannot recall having any problem with my many bank accounts that would be solved by Bitcoin.


Here's another good 'un:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25861717

But yeah, you're probably right, I'm sure it's always going to be somebody else's problem.




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