“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!

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    Somehow services like PayPal manage to avoid being regulated like a bank. I’m sure they’ll clobber cobble together some potentially unlawful solution and not face any repercussions for it.

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      I think because they’re a payment processor. Banks store large amounts of money, make loans, etc.

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        It’s going to be like a crypto or PayPal wallet where you can store a balance, it’s just not insured or regulated like a bank.

        I saw an article a while ago where a concerning amount of people were doing that instead of a bank account.

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        “Clobber” implies violence, which is somehow even less elegant than the standard phrase that the haphazard “cobble” implies. Given the shitshow of X so far, clobber probably works better even if it’s not the usual way to phrase this at all.

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          And despite cobble and clobber implying violence and inelegance, cobblers are either some of the best versions of pies or the people that maintain your fanciest of shoes.