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Simon Taylor

@sytaylor #277771

Fintech Nerd. Author of www.fintechbrainfood.com
51 Follower 16 Following
Launched a new podcast with @cuysheffield

Tokenized episode #1 is on Apple Podcasts and Spotify now ,👀

The revolution will be Tokenized
New Fintech Brainfood is out 🧠

- Why Visa's Flexible credential is a gamechanger.
- Google's new reward selector at checkout is awesome
- My take on the CFPB saying BNPL is a credit card

Find it in your inbox or at fintechbrainfood.com
Humanity loves an existential risk. It's almost a primal urge to be seeking that threat

- Overpopulation
- Climate
- Nuclear war
- Now AI

You can imagine utopias and dystopias

Truth is messy

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/25/big-tech-existential-risk-ai-scientist-max-tegmark-regulations
Visa's "flexible credential" makes cards work with any payment type.

Huge unlock for Stablecoins

Its a token that makes a card a pointer to any payment type.

Today credit, debit, BNPL or ACH...

Tomorrow

Who's building?!

@cuysheffield

https://usa.visa.com/about-visa/newsroom/press-releases.releaseId.20686.html
$750m in-flows into Bitcoin ETFs in a single day. That's nearly 0.01% of the entire global ETF market AUM.

In a single day.

👉 The global AUM in ETFs was 9.6 trillion U.S. dollars in 2022 (Statista)
👉 1% is 96bn, 0.1% is 9.6bn, 0.01% is $960m
The more I play with it

The more I realize frames and channels are exactly what X is missing

Extensibility.

Where threads is just Meta doing twitter.

@farcaster is building genuine innovations
Functionality in social messages

Frames are badass
Yet to see a superbowl predictions post on farcaster
gm

OMG there's a GM button