I think the fact that we need to use 3rd parties to enable us to buy with Bitcoin, cancel out the positve features of the technology.
Name any of these services, where there are NO 3rd party involved in the process? {Only direct payment to the company, who render the service}
These 3rd parties absorb the benefit we have of having "cheaper" fees. {We pay 3rd party fees, for their services, on top of our normal mining fees} This is surely not what Satoshi had in mind, when he created this technology.
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