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Comment by traeregan | Hacker News Reader

> the author's undisclosed competing product

"Adjoint digitises cash and settlement processes for multinational corporates."

I always assumed his anti-crypto writing was related to being in the Haskell community and a lot of Haskell community really going all-in for crypto at some point several years ago. I think because the problems were interesting and the type of hard that Haskell people like.

It's news to me he has other reasons to dislike crypto. I didn't know about adjoint, but that is very curious. I wonder which came first, the distaste or the financial company.

I suspect his opinion would be the same regardless of adjoint.

It's even funnier than that – back in 2019, Adjoint was bragging about "delivering blockchain technology built specifically for the needs of the financial industry" [1]

No idea if they pivoted away from blockchain or just stopped saying it on their website, but it makes me take this with several grains of salt.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20190502154457/https://www.adjoi...

He wrote an article a while back insulting the morals of a few colleagues in the Haskell world. When I went to share it with said colleagues I realised he had an account on our internal slack. He had previously worked there on said technologies that he was then slandering, something he hadn't made public.

Interesting! What advantage does Adjoint have over all the cryptocurrencies in existence can it handle payments without your bank declining your payment or chargebacks?

I think the main advantage is that it's owned by this one guy.

There seems to be three guys (at least) and it doesn't look like it competes with crypto as much as it is a product for financial firms.

It is a business-to-business product that doesn't seem to have anything to do with crypto.

It's not like crypto is a thread for this business.

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