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 Thanks Swann! Glad someone has some sanity in this foolish purity test. Visa using fiat dollars to move value today in 2040 it can be sats. It’s just a network. Clearly people haven’t done their homework on how visa came to power. 

Listen to this:

https://fountain.fm/clip/H5KxZ9Hc8ULULAYySob3

If you got 3 hours to kill:

https://fountain.fm/episode/vxY9eBOLOYOZcajqbeos

You will learn how visa used the Olympics to push merchant adoption. Then boom an explosion to make payments more convenient but to this day merchants still hate cards.