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He's left to focus on his ideas for making money with Bitcoin. Compared to crypto, Twitter is just not very exciting.

I don't know him personally so I could certainly be mistaken, but from listening to him speak/write and based on his charitable giving I don't get the impression at all that Jack is motivated by riches. I think he is genuinely interested in Bitcoin as a tool for advancing humanity. I also don't get the impression he is interested in 'crypto'. I guess it remains to be seen though.

Yeah. I think apart from that he knows how painful is to work with the current payment systems given the trouble they had to go through to get credit card companies work initially with Square to give their card readers for small businesses.

I wouldn't be surprised if that's the reason why FB investigated cryptocurrencies as well, they had/have so much trouble getting payment features approved in different countries.

Even if it’s not about personal riches, I think it’s pretty clear that he’s motivated by scale of impact, which for any for-profit company would likely be strongly correlated with “riches.”

> based on his charitable giving I don't get the impression at all that Jack is motivated by riches.

Well, if you have more riches, you can do more charitable giving, so I don't see why he would not be motivated by the possibility of more riches.

"Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29384379.

a few videos of him chatting with "investors" are on youtube et al

he seems also a bit into the transhumanist narrative

Can you share a couple of the better links?

I forgot which one I saw but it's in there https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jack+dorsey+elo... somewhere

it's interesting to hear them chat but don't expect deep stuff, it's rich people having fun about markets and futures

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