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The Rise of Whatever

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627 points cratermoon | 1 comments | 04 Jul 25 04:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
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dalemhurley ◴[04 Jul 25 07:29 UTC] No.44462040[source]▶
> "live in some futuristic utopia like the EU where banks consider "send money to people" to be core functionality. But here in the good ol' U S of A, where material progress requires significant amounts of kicking and screaming, you had PayPal."

I remember when PayPal came to Australia, I was so confused by it as I could just send money via internet banking. Then they tried to lobby the government to make our banking system worse so they could compete, much like Uber.

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1. robin_reala ◴[04 Jul 25 07:47 UTC] No.44462175[source]▶
In the EU PayPal caved and officially got a banking licence from Luxembourg.