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Re:I resigned from Twitter by adh636 on Monday November 29, 2021 @03:09PM (#29384583)
I don't know him personally so I could certainly be mistaken, but from listening to him speak/write and based on his charitable giving I don't get the impression at all that Jack is motivated by riches. I think he is genuinely interested in Bitcoin as a tool for advancing humanity. I also don't get the impression he is interested in 'crypto'. I guess it remains to be seen though.
Re:I resigned from Twitter by tshaddox on Monday November 29, 2021 @04:12PM (#29385341)
Even if it’s not about personal riches, I think it’s pretty clear that he’s motivated by scale of impact, which for any for-profit company would likely be strongly correlated with “riches.”
Re:I resigned from Twitter by dheera on Monday November 29, 2021 @04:23PM (#29385465)
> based on his charitable giving I don't get the impression at all that Jack is motivated by riches.

Well, if you have more riches, you can do more charitable giving, so I don't see why he would not be motivated by the possibility of more riches.

Re:I resigned from Twitter by blocked_again on Monday November 29, 2021 @03:21PM (#29384727)
Yeah. I think apart from that he knows how painful is to work with the current payment systems given the trouble they had to go through to get credit card companies work initially with Square to give their card readers for small businesses.
Re:I resigned from Twitter by baby on Monday November 29, 2021 @03:24PM (#29384784)
I wouldn't be surprised if that's the reason why FB investigated cryptocurrencies as well, they had/have so much trouble getting payment features approved in different countries.