I saw a post on Twitter by @BitcoinDood about an announcement that Amazon Is Hiring Developers for a Digital Currency Project. Now it may well be that Amazon is simply looking at ways of taking Crypto Payments for the products it sells along with the likes of Tesla and Apple, but then I got to thinking, what if it's bigger than that? What if Amazon et al. were looking at a whole almost self-sustaining financial system? What if, for example, Amazon was thinking of creating their own coin? I can see it now, buy one
"The restaurant's bill can be paid by depositing a penny in any bank account of the present time: by the end of the universe, the compound interest on that penny over the course of time after 170 quintillion years (short scale) will be enough to pay the extremely high bill."
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