I don't watch much TV on the TV itself nowadays, so I don't know if anyone has been talking about this ad or not:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbvl60_CZl8"
What a load of bullshit", I found myself saying aloud after witnessing that for the first time. How can it be working for everyone when so many people in the world are unbanked? And how much of the wording in that was deliberately chosen to mirror the kinds of things we say about Bitcoin? It feels very much like a pre-emptive first strike on their part, possibly demonstrating some insecurities about the threat their business model now faces.
Anyone else get the sense they had crypto in mind when they wrote the script for it?
It is cringeworthy and far too overdone, but adverts these days find it extremely hard to come up with original ideas. Funnily enough there will be a type of person in the cryptocurrency/bitcoin scene who will act in exactly the same way - they have tunnel vision on one idea only. There are many parallels between payment network providers like Visa and cryptocurrency - the only real difference being that one is decentralized. At present the payment networks have a large scale and all the infrastructure required to handle payments. Once cryptocurrency is able to create instant transactions and at much lower charges then the original payment networks will start to become redundant - but that is still some way off.