If it's cheaper than the list price, it's at least a better deal.
Bitcoin is objectively better based on the way it works. Subjectively, with the established infrastructure behind it, traditional card payments are artificially better - purely because of convenience. But on a level playing field bitcoin works better and is less susceptible to negative influences.
The grocery store is not typically an online transaction. I did specify online transactions. For buying groceries online, bitcoin would be better - there are no fees when trading bitcoin. When trading cash, there are no fees.
When putting cash into a business account, there are fees, and as almost all businesses put their money into an account they pay these fees. These cash deposit fees and card processing fees have grown in such a way as to entrap nearly all commercial transactions.
Objectively, it's better if there aren't fees, particularly when the fees are not proportional to the actual service the fees are supposed to represent.
Hey! Do you really think we're that stupid? I wouldn't push it if I were you.
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We'll surely avoid scurvy if we all eat an orange...
Translation: Car dealers don't make as much money from EV's.
Car sales is a racket anyway, the dealers make too much money, the car manufacturers make too much money, and with the prospect of a new technology that costs more they've realised that they can't charge as much more, meaning they profit less.
Price is not proportional to cost.
The biggest crime is the villainisation of haggling. Price must be negotiable for a system to remain fair.
I dunno, there are good arguments for traceability. Bitcoin has complete traceability, up to its endpoints.
*clink, clank, clink* your turn
My experience in the US is you pay fees whenever you withdraw from a bank that isn't your own. In other countries, you don't pay fees unless you withdraw from an independent machine, and even then many are free.
I dunno though, I had a cushy US bank with no branches of their own, so they didn't charge fees anywhere. BoA were bastards though, and I've heard terrible things about Chase.
You fight like a dairy farmer!!
"Authorities" = the Gaza Media Office. Up until now, the counts have been from the Gaza Health Ministry.
Not that I doubt the numbers - frankly I think they are likely higher - but it bears saying that the new figure comes from a body with less authority on the matter.
Meanwhile, for all Israel says of "those are numbers from Hamas" or whatever excuse they give, Israel have never (to my knowledge) provided their own numbers to counter the claim, nor said what would be an "acceptable" number of civilian casualties for their campaign.
The real purpose of all this is to use up weapons stockpiles and sell more. Change my mind.
Yeah, those thumbs are not proportional to the wrist. And now I look again, bottom right and bottom left have an extra nub.