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Re:Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022 by sneak on Friday September 30, 2022 @08:56AM (#33034221)
He also plainly stated that the thing he wants to start is a protocol, not a company, so it is hard to class it as “a competitor” in the traditional sense.

Does gmail compete with smtp?

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Re:Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022 by CharlesW on Friday September 30, 2022 @09:33AM (#33034619)
> He also plainly stated that the thing he wants to start is a protocol…

Yes, but not that one. He wants a protocol he can monetize using various forms of Web3 grifts.

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Re:Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022 by sneak on Friday September 30, 2022 @10:45AM (#33035588)
Your anti-cryptocurrency bias is blinding you to the fact that neither party to these conversations needs or wants any more money than they have presently.

When you're a multibillionaire and you're still building new shit from scratch, you build to build. Monetary gains are a side effect.

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