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> Well, Bitcoin saves you money by making transactions irreversible

How does it do that? Irreversible transactions allow the currency to be decentralised, but I don't think they were even intended to be a means of saving money.

> So ... if I get scammed, I got scammed? There's nothing I can do about it?

Cash has much the same problem.



Actually there are legal repercussions, and in the case of disasters like fires the federal government will actually replace your cash. Planet money had a great episode on this https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/06/30/535062249/epis...




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