Re:Cryptocurrency is driving innovation in the financial sector
by eksemplar on Monday July 02, 2018 @01:40AM
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I have an app that lets me transfer money to stores, friends, whatever instantly and without a fee. It’s build by our largest bank but works any bank. In stores it functions like apple or google pay.
If it gets hacked I get my money back.
Basically it does everything cryptos promised to do, except it actually works and it’s centralized.
Mean while I have a few cryptos sitting in a wallet with no real way of turning them into anything because nobody accepts them and no services currently let me turn them into fiat in my country.
It’s been 9 years and I think we’re further away from seeing a decentralized currency than we were 8 years ago. Back then you could at least buy coffee with BTC, you can’t even do that anymore.
I do think crypto helped the financial industry step up. We wouldn’t have had our bank app if there hadn’t been competition, but I don’t see us ever moving to a decentralized economy.
If it gets hacked I get my money back.
Basically it does everything cryptos promised to do, except it actually works and it’s centralized.
Mean while I have a few cryptos sitting in a wallet with no real way of turning them into anything because nobody accepts them and no services currently let me turn them into fiat in my country.
It’s been 9 years and I think we’re further away from seeing a decentralized currency than we were 8 years ago. Back then you could at least buy coffee with BTC, you can’t even do that anymore.
I do think crypto helped the financial industry step up. We wouldn’t have had our bank app if there hadn’t been competition, but I don’t see us ever moving to a decentralized economy.