mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: "Currently, digital currencies lack the basic protections consumers have
come to expect when transacting online " << because what the "
consumer"
has "
come to expect" is the fucking alpha and omega of the perceptible universe.
ben_vulpes: "Currently, digital currencies lack the basic protections consumers have
come to expect when transacting online. For example, contrary
to a
consumer's experience when paying wit a MasterCard product, if a
consumer uses digital currency
to make a purchase on line and the merchant fails
to deliver the goods, the
consumer has no recourse through the digital currency's network." << oh lordy