Posted on 02/14/2018 7:44:46 AM PST by SeekAndFind
I was a Corporate Senior VP at a top 20 bank. We dealt with wire transfers and international stuff every day.
Big banks are building their own private blockchain for exactly this purpose. But they want them to be used by their customers only. The banks are very concerned about the tech biting into their profits.
Of course they are going to do nothing but call it a scam.
You keep looking for the process to produce something. That is not how this works. I guess you could say it produces efficiency.
All of those and many more I can't imagine right now will be part of the CC/digital economy. You correct that the rest of the economy can function as it does now with physical and digital fiat. But the purely digitial portion of the economy will inevitably grow and eventually outpace the fiat physical economy. What do you actually need? Food, shelter, etc What else? The rest can be digital. However you are correct your plumber won't accept bitcoin for the foreseeable future and it's not worth losing sleep over it.
But a few decades from now that will be different and incidentally bitcoin will be dead by then because the PKI won't withstand brute forcing. The new CC's that replace it will be much more interesting.
FWIW, so will I.
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