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And 8 years later the fees no longer make it viable for even that niche use case.


What fee? Are you talking about a specific currency or all currencies? In Celo currently fees are 0.1 cent per transaction, for example.


I've never heard of a single physical item being sold for any other cryptocurrency, only Bitcoin.

How would a merchant of physical goods even know about something like Celo, whatever that is?


Adoption takes time.


Surely you recognize that this is a bad faith argument? The average transaction fee today is around $8 USD. That's a small price to pay for knowing that a transaction is set in stone.


It's a pretty high price to pay for donuts though. Especially since it's kind of hard to reverse a donut transaction after you've eaten them.




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