I have NEVER had an unreliable Bitcoin Transaction and my Transactions have always been Fast when Needed

btc is reliable for people who understand the basics of blockchain, how to watch the mempool and use that information to their advantage to ensure reliability. Crypto-enthusiasts like yourself have no problem using Bitcoin this way, but normies don't have any interest in learning what the mempool is, let alone how it works.

This makes it more complicated and less reliable than a cash system. You shouldn't have to know or watch anything technical to use cash reliably.

btc abandoned the vision of Peer-to-Peer electronic cash in favor of something different. There's nothing necessarily wrong with that, in my opinion, but it's just not aspiring to be a Digital Cash system anymore.

When I'm introducing people I know in real life to bitcoin, I always send them bitcoin cash, and then I immediately get them to do things with it... such as, send it back to me, create a paper wallet, play a round of poker on blockchain.poker and instantly withdraw their funds when they're done, etc.

If I were to get them to do this with btc while the blockchain is congested, they would either experience slow, unreliable confirmations or they would have to spend at least a few dollars to transact reliably. This is not a user experience that gets me excited to introduce people to crypto.

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