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> I think there’s this transformative opportunity in payments. And payments really are just the exchange of information. From an information standpoint, not a h
by mudrockbestgirl 4y ago
> I think there’s this transformative opportunity in payments. And payments really are just the exchange of information. From an information standpoint, not a huge difference between, say, just sending a direct message and sending a payment. They are basically the same thing. In principle, you can use a direct messaging stack for payments. And so that’s definitely a direction we’re going to go in, enabling people on Twitter to be able to send money anywhere in the world instantly and in real time. We just want to make it as useful as possible.
> If you can simply have one balance on Twitter that can simply go positive or a negative, and when it goes positive, the interest rate is better than what you could receive elsewhere, and when it goes negative, the interest rate is lower than what you see elsewhere, now you have a much simpler system.
Interesting choice of direction...
- coldtea 4y ago>I think there’s this transformative opportunity in payments. And payments really are just the exchange of information. From an information standpoint, not a huge difference between, say, just sending a direct message and sending a payment. That's the uninteresting part about payments though. It's like saying "Well, writing is just putting words to page, so since I've written a dictionary and a phone catalogue, I'm qualified to write a novel". The important part and the really difficult domain part, is all the regulations, money handling rules, everything from exchange rates to returns, and so on...