Elon Musk gives X employees one year to replace your bank
www.theverge.com
Musk wants your “entire financial life” on his platform.

“If it involves money. It’ll be on our platform. Money or securities or whatever. So, it’s not just like send $20 to my friend. I’m talking about, like, you won’t need a bank account.”

Well that sounds terrifying!

  • SloppyPuppy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    56·
    1 year ago

    As someone who worked for a tech banking company many years, you are too stupid to do it.

    This shit is complicated as fuck.

    Oh and all the tech in the world or capital you could build is worthless unless you have that sweet banking / credit license in US. And lets just say its really really hard to cone by nowadays.

    • anon_8675309@lemmy.worldEnglish
      40·
      1 year ago

      Oh please. It ain’t complicated. I could write a ruby app in a weekend that would do everything a bank does. It’s just subtracting from one account and adding to another.

      • Elon Musk probably.
    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Well, he could presumably hire some smart people to make it happen, but he’d have to pay them…

      Also, this is assuming he wants to be an actual bank and not just pay employees in scrip that you can only spend through things they provide.

    • purplemonkeymad@programming.devEnglish
      43·
      1 year ago

      There is literally prior art from him in this regard. He just decided to call it a payment processor so he did not have to do all that bit about it being other people’s money.