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by greatgib 1269 days ago
Just to remember that a company is not a NGO, and that a company only purpose is to make money. So a company does not decide to improve the state of art, or help, provide free ideas of the target goal is not to get his share of the incomes.
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Nobody is suggesting otherwise. Just saying that the full picture is more nuanced than your single paragraph summary would suggest. I get the cynicism but it’s not JUST that here.

The cryptocurrency space has done an actively terrible job up until this point at creating a global payments infrastructure that businesses are excited about using. They could use some help on that front. This is an organisation with a track record in doing exactly that.

Nobody involved with Ethereum is opposed to making money or building services that charge fees.