• humble_boatsman
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    114 days ago

    While I find this fascinating, what these monopolies do with their power, I wonder more what the alternatives are… There where some interesting Economist articles on major changes to financial techs aiming to break this though that was years ago and I don’t remember much other then discussion of micro loans and government cryptos schemes

    • @[email protected]
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      114 days ago

      Fix would be government regulation.

      Alternatives are sending cash by mail, accepting bank ACH, and of course, cryptocurrency.

      • Concetta
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        34 days ago

        I wonder if the Canadian e transfer system would be helpful. I literally used to buy drugs using e-transfer and I’m pretty confident they still deal.

    • melroy
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      13 days ago

      Crypto. I mean everything except the banking system