Because the moment someone else handles the money and you don't see it happen, they steal. Any third party in the middle can leak info. Lets say you buy with CC and pay the card people a 3% fee. Is that 3% *only* 3% in reality? [1/2]
It is not secure, even a little bit. Ethereum has already had a revert and it's only a few years old.
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All of these are subject to 51% attacks, which seem like they would be rather easy to mount in a world where BitCoin was important - I mean it seems like getting 51% of central banking to agree that it's in their best interest to change something would not be hard at all.
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In today's world that would just be US, China, and Japan get together and decide to change the ledger. That'd be all that would be required. No other country would even have to be consulted.
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