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Re:Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and eBay exit Facebook’s Libra ... by antihero on Saturday October 12, 2019 @06:58AM (#21232102)
At least governments are sort of remotely accountable. If we've learned anything from the entire fucking history of the internet it's that nerds with power are not particularly accountable.
Re:Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and eBay exit Facebook’s Libra ... by FerretFred on Monday October 14, 2019 @08:16AM (#21247425)
> At least governments are sort of remotely accountable

That's very "sort of", and very remote! I wouldn't trust my (the UK) Government as far as I could throw them!

Re:Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and eBay exit Facebook’s Libra ... by wallace_f on Saturday October 12, 2019 @07:07AM (#21232134)
Do you really think if the internet was architected by politicians or corporate suits rather than 'some nerds with power'that it would have turned out better?
Re:Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and eBay exit Facebook’s Libra ... by antihero on Saturday October 12, 2019 @08:04AM (#21232379)
No, but let's not conflate the internet and currency/
Re:Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and eBay exit Facebook’s Libra ... by jrochkind1 on Saturday October 12, 2019 @11:49AM (#21234048)
Wait, aren't you the first one to do that in your first comment in this thread?
Re:Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and eBay exit Facebook’s Libra ... by ben_w on Sunday October 13, 2019 @04:12AM (#21239173)
I don’t think antihero did, I think Facebook did that with this project. Also PayPal before that.

Personally, I don’t trust any of these systems or organisations, neither tech, nor fintech, nor traditional banks. They’re all flawed for different reasons.

Technology is an attack surface the traditional banks don’t comprehend (from the horror stories I’ve heard from tech people who worked for them), and successful attacks on banking have rewards that tech… I don’t think fully appreciates.

Re:Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and eBay exit Facebook’s Libra ... by speedplane on Sunday October 13, 2019 @04:16AM (#21239190)
> Technology is an attack surface the traditional banks don’t comprehend, and successful attacks on banking have rewards that tech… I don’t think fully appreciates.

True, but Tech also doesn't really appreciate banks. Banks make much of their money from transaction fees, from literally moving money from one point to another, to large IPO underwriting. Tech can certainly lower transaction fees, but a bank's transaction fees is more than just getting a job done, it's trusting that the job can get done. Banks are able to get away with large transaction fees because they have developed trust and credibility that many are willing to pay for. Tech simply sees this as an engineering challenge and ignores the non-tech legal and social guarantees that banks provide.