Bank to bank transfers across countries take days if not weeks.
Bank to bank transfers in the same bank take like 10 minutes.
Credit card transactions take months to confirm.
It's really ridiculous, and the only people that HFT benefits are those with tons of money to begin with.
Besides, absolutely nobody is stopping people from creating a very low latency Counterparty asset exchange(s) (off-chain).
+1
I could not agree more, 10 minutes if fine for almost all normal uses, people need to learn a bit of patience.
i call bullshit.
i have been using counterwallet, dogeparty and clearinghouse lately to gather info for a report i am writing, and i have to say XCH is the best out of the 3
not only is it fast, but the dev's are responsive and have fixed some of the issues with the wallet.
it is a BREEZE to use. i know there is a slight advantage to be using BTC for dividend payments, but not having to sit there and waste 10 minutes of your life that has real value to people.
I re-call bullshit?
Counterparty devs are responsive, not to mention one of the fastest dev teams out there AND one of the only dev teams that not only works for free, but also spends their own personal funds to move a project forward.
When you make a dividend payment with Counterparty, you are not required to wait 10 minutes for it to go through, you can just walk away and reclaim that 10 minutes of your life and the transaction will go through without you. The same time is spent either way.
The usability of both wallets is practically identical as well. So again, the only advantage XHC has, is speed.
i never said the XCP dev's are not responsive. please don't put words where there aren't any.
the main branch has a good team and indeed will benefit from the XCH team's contributions, however the backbone they are working with is bit gimped, as we all know from the op return 80 gimp to 40, and the 10 minute confirms. of course bitcoin has other advantages like network effect, stability and having the code worked on by many people.
forget about high frequency trading when we talk about machine to machine electronic markets, it is nice to get higher frequency and resolution.
BTC is fine for stuff like trading equities and settling between off chain accounts, but for other use cases 10 minutes just doesn't cut it.
btw i now own XCP, XDP and XCH