{"id":13546,"date":"2021-01-10T20:31:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T20:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=13546"},"modified":"2021-01-10T16:37:06","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T20:37:06","slug":"fintech-finally-got-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/fintech-finally-got-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"FinTech Finally Got Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n
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Politicians have strangled emerging payment systems<\/div>\n
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Nearly every PayPal alum has graduated to never return to #finTech. Well, tech finally got to finTech when Bitcoin got a market cap over $684 billion. <\/div>\n
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Even ethereum is $140,000,000 in market cap as of Jan 10<\/p>\n

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Bitcoin is now more valuable than Facebook. Ethereum is worth $150B.<\/p>\n

Over the next decade, decentralized blockchain-based services will provide morally, technically, and financially superior alternatives to American & Chinese tech companies alike.<\/p>\n

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#fintech finally got tech<\/div>\n
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Before, Visa-MasterCard, Alipay, WeChat models were presented as fait accompli for payments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The US MasterCard \/ Visa and Chinese Alipay \/ WeChat models were presented as fait accompli for payments. India has shown there are ways to build alternatives, like has been achieved with \u00e2\u0081\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u00aa@UPI_NPCI\u00e2\u20ac\u00ac\u00e2\u0081\u00a9<\/a><\/a>twitter.com\/rmantri\/status\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/a><\/p>\n

Similar models are possible in other spaces.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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By Larry Chiang Politicians have strangled emerging payment systems Nearly every PayPal alum has graduated to never return to #finTech. Well, tech finally got to finTech when Bitcoin got a market cap over $684 billion.  Even ethereum is $140,000,000 in market cap as of Jan 10     balajis.com \u00e2\u0081\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u00aa@balajis\u00e2\u20ac\u00ac\u00e2\u0081\u00a9 Bitcoin is now more valuable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}