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“If it involves money. It’ll be on our platform. Money or securities or whatever. So, it’s not just like send $20 to my friend. I’m talking about, like, you won’t need a bank account.”

Well that sounds terrifying!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Fuck banks. Also, fuck whatever this is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Here’s their potential path, maybe ….

I have no idea the limitations of this approach, if any, but just experienced it a few days ago. I bought something expensive online, and the timing was sensitive, else I’d lose out on a lot of money. Then I got down to the final payment. It made me really nervous and would have reconsidered if I knew about it, but the final payment could only be done through bank transfer, but they wouldn’t let me provide the standard routing and account numbers. They had a web app that brings up your banking app, has you login to that, and appears to scrape data. They were able to see my accounts and balances, as well as initiate the transfer. This was so scary, exactly like I’d expect malware to be.

Bviously I changed my passwords immediately and verified there was only one transaction and exactly as I’d expect. However yes, they controlled my bank8ng without being a bank and without any apparent cooperation from my bank. All it takes is normalizing the behavior that will get us all robbed of all we own

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Sounds to me like a attempt to move toward Scrip.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

🤣 he's trying to turn twitter into chinas Wechat

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Folks he is conning
Call themselves wolves, march like sheep
I do pity fools.

Ignore Elon, embrace Haiku!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This guy wants to be SBF round 2. Watch. People are going to put their CASH on X.com with no regulation or anything while promising crazy returns if you jusf deposit your funds and “stake” your US dollars as a quasi-investment in X, only to have a total rug pull job with X filing for bankruptcy and all the money being unaccounted for. He will sell it as, “we have to have this money because the ADL forced all our advertisers off the platform”. Fortunately, all that’s left of the people on X.com are stragglers and the far right/nazis, so they will just lose their money.

If you are still on X, you’re supporting an anti-Semite ultra powerful billionaire plain and simple. Musk pushing all the same talking points. White genocide, Jews are the cause of their own persecution via ADL, etc. Quit giving this guy your money by engaging on his site.

The other possibility is that it’ll be like Tesla’s self driving tech that has been coming “by the years end” since 2016 and it’s just meant to drive investment. Both are equally likely. The guy is a fucking grifter to the max. I can’t believe I used to think the hyper loop was a cool/realistic vision for the future. Fuck Elon Musk.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Pffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thanks, I needed a good laugh..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

This is also Apple's goal, strange they didn't pass the cap yet. Paypal was the first "digital" bank, we owe him that but to be honest, i won't put my money in a US entity. It is already difficult with most of the digital only EU banks.

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