▲ 166 ▼ Visa Could Ruin the Internet (www.youtube.com) submitted 5 months ago by ratrace@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@programming.dev 63 comments fedilink hide all child comments What if you woke up tomorrow and completely lost access to your bank account, credit cards, PayPal, and Venmo, all because of something you posted online?
[+] Jiral@lemmy.org 1 point 5 months ago (3 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] hirihit640@sh.itjust.works 1 point 5 months ago (2 children) I'm not convinced that a triopoly (not sure what it's called) is significantly different from a duopoly. My own views are that we need a balance of control and chaos. Both extremes have substantual downsides. My main view is that a centralized system can be built on top of a decentralized one, but not the other way around. And by the way, if crypto and traditional banking co-existed, with broad support for both, that would be a decentralized system, and I'm fine with that. As long as people can easily convert their fiat to crypto and interact with the same sellers in order to bypass censorship. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] Jiral@lemmy.org 1 point 5 months ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] hirihit640@sh.itjust.works 1 point 5 months ago Well crypto is fully decentralized, with every node acting independently, so it really is the most competitive environment you can imagine, if that's what you're looking for permalink fedilink source parent
[–] hirihit640@sh.itjust.works 1 point 5 months ago (2 children) I'm not convinced that a triopoly (not sure what it's called) is significantly different from a duopoly. My own views are that we need a balance of control and chaos. Both extremes have substantual downsides. My main view is that a centralized system can be built on top of a decentralized one, but not the other way around. And by the way, if crypto and traditional banking co-existed, with broad support for both, that would be a decentralized system, and I'm fine with that. As long as people can easily convert their fiat to crypto and interact with the same sellers in order to bypass censorship. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] Jiral@lemmy.org 1 point 5 months ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] hirihit640@sh.itjust.works 1 point 5 months ago Well crypto is fully decentralized, with every node acting independently, so it really is the most competitive environment you can imagine, if that's what you're looking for permalink fedilink source parent
[+] Jiral@lemmy.org 1 point 5 months ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] hirihit640@sh.itjust.works 1 point 5 months ago Well crypto is fully decentralized, with every node acting independently, so it really is the most competitive environment you can imagine, if that's what you're looking for permalink fedilink source parent
[–] hirihit640@sh.itjust.works 1 point 5 months ago Well crypto is fully decentralized, with every node acting independently, so it really is the most competitive environment you can imagine, if that's what you're looking for permalink fedilink source parent