Serious thrashing going on... decent volume too..
Will they or won't they - It's basically Ross & Rachel all over again..
trashing is over.
Now stabilization an moon trips
Majority!? You named three transaction types. Bitcoin alone has several scenarios you failed to mention solely for the misrepresentation of the cryptocurrency in order to (wrongly) assert that it has many more middlemen than fiat transactions.
Bitcoin
Purchasing bitcoin using fiat in exchange: Bob → Bank → Bitcoin exchange → Alice (selling is the same, backwards)
Purchasing bitcoin using fiat: Bob → Alice or (more recommended) Bob → escrow → Alice
Exchanging bitcoins for goods personally: Bob → Alice
Exchanging bitcoins for goods at a distance: Bob → Alice or Bob → escrow → Alice
[Well, seems Elux put it better than me]
Makes lots of sense, because open a bank account is as easy as creating a bitcoin address and with same fees and you can transfer to any bank anywhere in the world with same easy
The climate has changed. I have been buying every week for six months and the downtrend is definitively broken.
Buying every week 0.01btc is not considered buying. Nobody cares about such low amounts of money. Even my housecleaner earns more in tips than you have spent in 6 months on bitcoin.
Poor bastard.
Some years ago one could say:
Buying every week 10btc is not considered buying. Nobody cares about such low amounts of money, etc.
But now it is a large amount of money