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Re:Facebook Is Developing a Cryptocurrency for WhatsApp Tran... by dang on Friday December 21, 2018 @08:25PM (#18738271)
Personal attacks will get you banned here. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and don't post like this to HN.
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Re:Facebook Is Developing a Cryptocurrency for WhatsApp Tran... by t0astbread on Friday December 21, 2018 @06:49AM (#18732792)
If WhatsApp is the only client, FB can still control it since WhatsApp is proprietary
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Re:Facebook Is Developing a Cryptocurrency for WhatsApp Tran... by Geee on Friday December 21, 2018 @07:04AM (#18732844)
It's not going to be the only client, but Facebook has the network effects working for them, so it would be pointless or more difficult to use another client. In addition, they'll build services on top of it that are tightly tied into their ecosystem.
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