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MrBayAreaHokie

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It is a....


It is also a payment network with no intermediary. Think about how crazy that is. Every financial transaction you do has 1,2 or 3 intermediaries.

You swipe your Visa card at Red Lobster and there’s RL’s bank, Visa, and the bank that issued your card, 3 intermediaries taking a cut.

If you ever read financial reports on banks, the highest ROA activity are cards.

It is wild to speculate on how this goes down.

(In response to this post by Fatman)

Posted: 03/07/2021 at 11:02PM



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