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[–] wolfrasin@lemmy.today 11 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Please won't somebody build a different system for financial transaction?

Toppling MasterCard and Visa would help a lot I think

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] wolfrasin@lemmy.today 1 points 4 days ago

Needs to be viable & usesable enough that y'all can put sanctions on the USA and its allies/puppets.

Ain't there yet

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago

a network of 16 European banks and financial institutions

Yeah they're really smashing the system!!! \s

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Please won’t somebody build a different system for financial transaction?

Open ledgers have been around for more than a decade. It was developed precisely to disempower the money cartels. But somehow people still prefer capitalist food paper decorated with wacky cult iconography and literal enslavers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_religion

[–] Star@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 days ago

Let's start our own currency