Not really a bad thing, is it? What’s the problem with having another competitor?
Because it’s not a competitor
Yet. It’s not a competitor yet. Musk has been open about working towards making it a competitor.
Again because last time went so well. And Elon musk is known for not liking and failing at complying to regulations, and that man wants to run a financial service provider? Hahahaha
Last time he got bought out for hundreds of millions of dollars, so yeh I’d say it went pretty well.
And then he continued to work on his x.com ideas, to be kicked out because he wasn’t able to produce a product. Obviously he made money, but his idea failed. And him making money, doesn’t change anything about his history with not complying with regulations and his plan to run in the modern environment a financial service. 9/11 changed the finance world. Obviously musk doesn’t quite know that.
What on earth does this have to do with 9/11?
A lot of new regulations for the financial services. Like truly a lot.
Venmo is PayPal 2.0 (and owned by PayPal). X is a distant 3, 4, or 5 place.
What the hell is X? I feel out of the loop, as always.
As of now? Nothing other than twitter.
Musks plan is for X to basically be the wests version of WeChat.
Which is weird since the US Fed is now trialing a direct transfer service, and you’re a lot of dead boomers and genXers away from dethroning V/MC/Amex from their ubiquitous payment networks. There’s nothing you can do on the consumer side to make fund transfers cheaper or more attractive (reward systems already pay consumers to use cards) and also get vendors on board (who hate the 2.5-2.8% they already pay; they’re sure as shit not going to pay you more than the going rate). Plus, given how poorly the code at Twitter was managed, you’d have to be an idiot to trust X with your money.
Man, I would love it if there was a non-corp owned way of giving money to people. Even the homeless have switched to PayPal/Venmo, and it’s to the point Visa/PayPal control and tax every transaction.
Whether you like it or not X gonna give it to ya
And PayPal is just X 2.0
Palm Pilots seemed so futuristic back then.
I feel like palm pilots are super impressive for the time period they existed in. They were so futuristic! Basically the 1998 smartphone