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A bank computer working weekends?

The unions would stop that 😂

It always takes disruption to remove an entrenched industry. The Internet did it to many industries 30 years ago. The difficulty for Bitcoin is that it attacks the heart of government and banks. It's a much tougher fight this time.

I'm still surprised that Estate Agent (Real Estate) is still a thriving industry. The Internet should have disrupted that in the same way it disrupted travel agents, but the Estate Agents were clever, despite their reputation, and embraced the technology and prevented true disruption from being too severe for them.
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profk 1y ago

I realise things take time etc but I’m in the process of getting another passport and it’s taken 2/3 months to get ‘PAPER’ copies of mine and my father’s passport from different parts of the world. Bitcoin aside, you’d think that’s the kind of info that would make sense to be on a distributed ledger of some kind. It’s crazy to me.

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mike 1y ago

My new passport and driving license were (relative to the bureaucracy of government) very simple. I took an iPhone selfie with specific conditions (actually my wife had to take it).

I went online uploaded it, filled in a form with only a few stupid questions and then received my passport a couple of weeks later.

The driving license shared the same uploaded photo and was a renewal, so a couple of questions on an online form, a few GBP and again a couple of weeks later a renewed driving license arrived in the post.