There’s still a lot of situations where not having a mediator might make commerce, think overseas vendors etc.
Don’t get me wrong I hate rent seekers like visa/mastercard and they need to go, but their networks actually minimize trust required with unknown vendors.
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2025-03-20 04:14:41 UTC
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