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As you don't know whether Discover or Amex is bigger? Why does that matter? And Paypal is not a credit card. You can link it directly to your bank account and pay with it as the transaction processor. That's a big part of why it's so popular. Might as well complain about bitcoins.


Sorry I don't understand the point of your answer.

I've mentioned multiple times "financial institutions", which include banks and paypal in my book.

Bitcoins are amazing. Just not there yet. I can't give a credit card of bitcoins for my wife to buy groceries :)

But that's off-topic.

You clearly just want to disagree and that's fine, but please bring arguments instead of weird accusations of bitcoin hatred


> Bitcoins are amazing. Just not there yet. I can't give a credit card of bitcoins for my wife to buy groceries :)

Yes you can. There are actually even multiple providers for just such a card.


The point is that referring to Visa and MC as a duopoly is inaccurate. There are other ways to process payments besides through the credit card system.




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