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What’s Fast And Slow And Read All Over?

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This innovator secretly hoped the government would be so enamored with his innovation and its potential to transform commerce (and any number of other uses cases) that they’d want to own and operate it. Western Union launched its national money transfer, which provided fast payments between people and businesses, in 1871.

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Most Platforms Can’t Scale, Will Fail

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Well, it is “an innovative new payment platform created to transform the payments industry by drastically altering the economics through Internet-based technology, generating significant consumer benefits.” It’s going to leapfrog those sleepy big giant payments networks. Is it one those amazing blockchain things?

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