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by practicalpants 1895 days ago
Intriguing that the motivation for coinbase was:

"Credit card fees are too high. In the next five years merchants are going to start moving away from..."

I think it's fair to say he was actually wrong. But succeeded nonetheless because everyone now wants to get rich speculating on cryptos, which is the dominant reason they are so popular.

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I honestly think stablecoins on a layer 2 network have a good shot assuming merchants find a good way to incentivize it over credit cards.