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December 17, 2021, 04:15:02 AM
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What interests me is that it makes sense to start a “bank” that will take care of customers like traditional banks do. Opening an account, buying a crypt, maintaining a computer, etc.?

For the bank it makes sense. It can even use cypto as a fractional reserve asset, since many customers may just deposit there for long time.

For the crypto user - it depends on the user. Many don't care about "not your keys, not your coins" and if a small APY is offered some will be happy.
Many other users will be outraged, since crypto is meant to avoid third party. Many will prefer to remain anonymous and will keep their coins on their own wallet.
So, it depends on the user.

But.. in order to do this "you" have to
1. Get to get trusted. Big time. No sane person deposits money just like that.
2. "You" have to have all the credentials of a financial institution, accepted in all the countries this service is offered in. Basically "you" have to be a bank with some extra competences.
3. "You" have to ask for KYC from users, which will most probably scare off a big number of the potential customers.

Nowadays banks started making deals with crypto exchanges so they, together, can offer something pretty much close to what you are saying.
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December 16, 2021, 02:25:23 PM
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I was thinking about it for a while. I am a developer, I understand the concept of bitcoin, blockchain and decentralization. There are cryptocurrency buying services, there are wallet creation services. People who want to have cryptocurrency already have and know what they need to use from the service.

But even though blockchain and crypto are designed to be decentralized, in a way I believe that the bank will then slowly switch to crypto and offer you a service, so your bank will make you an account, keep the currency there, you will use the payment card... basically manage everything as they do now. As it is now with fiat. Since a large part of the market people is crypto-uneducated this will be a good opportunity for banks to gain market share.

What interests me is that it makes sense to start a “bank” that will take care of customers like traditional banks do. Opening an account, buying a crypt, maintaining a computer, etc.?
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