alt Hacker News> easy to transfer from one party to another
"Let me just set up my P2P connection to the Bitcoin network and pay mining fees and hope a miner validates the block"
vs
"Here's a bar of gold mate"
Sure, real easy
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RealityVoid • yesterday at 5:38 PM
> "Here's a bar of gold mate"
Yeah, super convenient. Well worth it. I'll just go with gold bars on me to the market to buy lettuce.
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OK, how do I know that gold is pure and real? What if you live on the other side of the world and I want to buy that gold from you?
And there isn't any "hope" involved in bitcoin transactions. Connecting to the peer to peer network is super simple (way, way easier than creating a brokerage or bank account, and no ID or approval is required). Miners will pick up your transaction (and yes fees will help speed that up, as with any financial transaction) and it will be included in a block. Bitcoin has been doing this non-stop, flawlessly since 2009.