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> Is it expensive to do so? Yes. But it is possible.

That's a fair point. Perhaps I should have said "impractical" or "cost-preventative" instead.

> paypal automatically knows who gave what to whom.

Correct, but my point was that the number of opportunities to directly pay someone bitcoin for a physical good are so limited as to make using it for what most people need a "currency" for impossible.



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