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CoolGuySteve on Dec 21, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Facebook Is Developing a Cryptocurrency for WhatsA...

You mean like WeChat’s Yuan balances? The app where it’s extremely difficult for Americans to buy currency but that is ubiquitous throughout China?

It’s almost like none of these middle-brow dismissals have ever actually experienced a payment problem in another country.

geofft on Dec 21, 2018 [–]

Perhaps your better-positioned brow could clarify exactly how the involvement of a blockchain would solve WeChat's problem and make it easy for Americans to buy in?

In particular, if it could be done, why isn't WeChat doing it? And if WeChat can't do it, why can WhatsApp do it?

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