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Cryptocurrencies would be an extremely poor way to implement micropayments, as their high transaction fees make them inefficient and their fluctuations in price make them unsuitable for payment in general.

The banking system moves at glacial speed, but I do believe we'll see banking plugins integrated with browsers at some point.




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