Just like paying "Mastercard dollars" at the store means it might as well be pesos? Presumably for transactions that are worth paying blockchain fees, you'd use the blockchain.
> Just like paying "Mastercard dollars" at the store means it might as well be pesos?
I’m talking about specifically the benefit being sold as “Bitcoin is solving the problem of the unbanked”: if the solution involves the government being a free universal payment intermediary, the underlying currency choice isn’t what is solving the problem of tje unbanked, its the government providing free universal banking services, to which the underlying currency is mostly irrelevant, that is solving that problem.
The currency choice might be relevant to other things, though.
