Its so funny to see these type of things.

Blockchain / crypto was started as a decentralized thing, than gambling happened.

And now it transforms to 'whatever people thought it would be' to 'normal big companies we all know and use are leverging it now in a way to be able to say "But we also do blockchain and crypto" completly destroying the originally idea of it.

But i don't mind. Make the ecosystem even more complicated and complex so that even less people care and use it.

Crypto/Blockchain/NFT was the biggest 'transfer money from a lot of people to a few people' scam for a while now.

I guess this shows you how long it takes a big company to ship software, because there's no way they started this project after 2022.

I was right since the beginning, the cryptocurrency fad was a test, to both harden and crowdfund the development of a CBDC

To make people perhaps want to "want" it

https://www.edps.europa.eu/press-publications/publications/t...

https://www.federalreserve.gov/central-bank-digital-currency...

What's interesting tho, is Brazil (Lula's administration), let Visa acquire their crypto fintech Pismo last year

https://investor.visa.com/news/news-details/2023/Visa-to-Acq...

Ethereum’s smart contracts are inherently insecure. Look at all the money lost through oracle hacks and bridge attacks. If crypto ever becomes viable, mark my words - Ethereum will not be that platform.

I wish we could still do gas rebates, the sub 1 gwei prices on Ethereum right now are the perfect time to load up when gas prices skyrocket again

A Visa run corollary to the ethereum blockchain? Why wouln't a bank just issue its own ERC-20 token?

Blockchain and b2b banking infrastructure seems like a more sensible use case, since the transaction processing infrastructure can be offloaded to the ethereum network instead of the visa’s infrastructure for some kinds of transactions.

What used to take days may now only take minutes.

Unless this is just another avenue for speculative trading…