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Here's the thing I don't get. By default, you're receiving bitcoin and sending out dollars/yen. By default, there should be no discrepancies! I feel like you would need to be actively incompetent and trying to do tricky things for this to go out of sync.

If I had a box, accepted apples and oranges, and would give them back to the owner if asked(taking some slices as payment fees, but at transaction) , at what point can things disappear? The only thing I can think of is race condition style things, but that's a single point of failure right?

Maybe I'm missing some complexity here



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