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		fpgaminer on Aug 10, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Coinbase raises $100M Series D led by IVP You missed the salient word: "clear" PayPal transactions never really clear. You can probably reverse a 3 year old PayPal transaction... But Bitcoin payments are irreversible after only 1 hour. There are no other systems that accomplish that online.

pedrocr on Aug 10, 2017 [–]

If your definition of clearing is that they can't be reversed then nothing that isn't a crypto currency allows it. That's not the usual definition of transaction clearing though.

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