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The Crypto Elites Are Plotting a Wall Street Merger

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Re: The Crypto Elites Are Plotting a Wall Street Merger

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This blog post goes off the rails in the second sentence.

> The crypto movement, the very rebellion that set out to defeat [WallSt/TheFed] hegemony, has provided them with the necessary new-age tech to enhance their existing order.

Like what tech do banks or the government need from the crypto crowd? Trading has been electronic for decades, the credit card networks are orders of magnitude more scalable than any blockchain, ACH exists.

Re: The Crypto Elites Are Plotting a Wall Street Merger

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This blog post goes off the rails in the second sentence. > The crypto movement, the very rebellion that set out to defeat [WallSt/TheFed] hegemony, has provided them with the necessary new-age tech to enhance their existing order. Like what tech do banks or the government need from the crypto crowd? Trading has been electronic for decades, the credit card networks are orders of magnitude more scalable than any block…

They do not 'need' anything. Apparently there's some utility for a cryptographically signed ledger, but I suspect that's a 'blockchain' in name only.

EDIT: I remember some banking 'crypto' projects announced by several institutions across the globe. Whether they are real projects or just a way to try to attract investments by pitching the latest fad, I do not know.

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