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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. No one, since without it, new payments schemes struggle, and many use cases are DOA. By stagecoach and on horseback.

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Most Platforms Can’t Scale, Will Fail

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In fact, it’s not surprising at all that Revolution Money pretty much fizzled not long after the check cleared to the PR firm that wrote that September 2007 press release. As this dream of “transformation” went, so does pretty much every other platform play in payments. And in most other industries. It’s normal.

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