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The early employees will get millions of dollars. This is 1)an unreasonably large amount of money for anybody to make or 2)nothing compared to the billions that the founders and ve…

Finnovation SF is a conference Sila is organizing on Oct 14 in SF. We are delivering on our promise of "From Founders to Founders" with an amazing group of speakers : - Adam Erleba…

We've been using this for months. Didn't realize that Slack hadn't officially released this till now.

No cannons then, but it might have been destroyed by a projectile from a ballista ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballista ) or an onager ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onager_(we…

True. But its not programmable, in the way that Ethereum is for example. And that would be a nice feature to have in a payments system. PoW would never make sense for the Fed anywa…

The Federal Reserve isn't a single entity. Its composed of 12 different member Federal Reserve Banks. And The banks that are part of the Federal Reserve system own stock in the mem…

Don't forget the best of them all India - UPI (2016) https://www.npci.org.in/product-overview/upi-product-overvie...

Looks like their missteps with the checking account hasn't slowed down their valuation growth at least.

Would you be willing to offer a discount, say 5%, to customers who made an irrevocable payment? No chargebacks guaranteed.

BBVA has public APIs in the US and Spain - https://www.bbvaapimarket.com/ More APIs are coming too.

It could very easily do that. Try writing a check for a million dollars - the bank won't pay it, and the same if you try using your debit card for very large amounts. Visa/Masterca…

And even before 1973, the gold in the Fed's vaults did not back all the currency in circulation, only a fraction of ith (thats why it was called the fractional reserve system). Als…

Actually, there is a system in place for any bank to transfer money to another account at another bank. Its called ACH ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_Clearing_House ), an…

Actually, you don't have to be related to the armed forces in any way to join USAA bank. I am not even a US citizen, and I was able to sign-up without trouble. All you have to do i…