Visa Plans to Enable Bitcoin Payments at 70M Merchants

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Kin

Not directly related, but has anyone looked at Kin [1] recently. Besides btc and eth, they are the only guys with SEC clearance. And given that they are running on the Solana chain, as far as I understand, makes micro transactions possible.<p>Also from a dev point of view, their weekly reward engine payouts is quite attractive!<p>[1] - <a href="https://kin.org" rel="nofollow">https://kin.org</a>.

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BitInfoCharts

> The eth blockchain is untenably huge (good luck running an ethereum full node)<p>No blockchains are anywhere close to "untenably huge".<p>The ethereum chain is 639.43 GB.<p><a href="https://bitinfocharts.com/" rel="nofollow">https://bitinfocharts.com/</a><p>A $10 USD VPS could sync with that in under two hours. That is about $12 USD of hard drive space after 5 years.<p>This is about the same as downloading the five to eight largest games on steam.<p>> and ethereum fees are often higher than Bitcoin fees.<p>No they aren't. They are about the same, making them both unusable for normal transactions, but it should be obvious there are no technical limitations to making larger and/or more frequent blocks since ethereum does it already.<p><a href="https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/transactionfees-btc-eth.html#3m" rel="nofollow">https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/transactionfees-btc-eth...</a><p>> It doesn't have to be "synced with the chain" except during channel opening and closing, which occur infrequently (like on the scale of weeks or months).<p>Which means that no one can use that balance for weeks or months and some third party has to spot people the money in the mean time. That sounds like a credit card. Know what doesn't work like that? On chain transactions.

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