Why specify non-currency? Doesn't Bitcoin provide a more convenient/less expensive way to send money between countries (or both). Those are pretty powerful uses. (I don't know money laundering and drug dealing are still more convenient in Bitcoin)
A bitcoin transaction and a bank transaction are very different things.
A bitcoin transaction is settled as soon as the block is mined. Without any third parties or trust involved, and no way to reverse the transaction. While a bank transaction could settle in days and always with some trusted third party.
Try making a transaction over the lightning network (layer 2 tech of bitcoin), it’s instantly settled and almost for free. The whole country of El Salvador is making transactions within the country using this technology and they’re getting remittance from outside the country far cheaper than banks.
It boggles my mind that people genuinely believe this is a good thing, especially in an ecosystem so rife with scammers.
I get that it's rather integral to the primary use cases of bitcoin, but that doesn't mean you have to pretend it's a good thing when marketing the currency to the average joe as a PayPal replacement.
How’s it bad? You have to accept responsibility when making transactions. This is tremendously beneficial for businesses and end users when making peer to peer transactions.
Because there's absolutely no protection against fraud. This is somewhat of a problem when there's such a gigantic amount of fraud going on.
> You have to accept responsibility when making transactions
Yes, and so does the other party.
What irreversible transactions do is give the receiving party the ability to shirk all responsibilities, because it's significantly more difficult (if not impossible) to hold them to account.
