What I took away from this was: - An incredibly grandiose claim that this would've "fixed global payments at scale" - Complaints about the "slow play" as they

What I took away from this was: - An incredibly grandiose claim that this would've "fixed global payments at scale" - Complaints about the "slow play" as they have to comply with regulations that everyone else in that industry also must comply with - A reason based entirely hearsay, yet with the bold claim it was "100% a political kill" - The Fed didn't actually say that banks can't use the technology, but rather that they aren't comfortable with it - The actual point of the post was to promote a new crypto startup I don't walk away convinced that the big bad government killed innovation here; if the company with a $1.5 trillion market cap pushing this project really wanted to, they would've continued pursuing it.