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Do you believe there's a large enough base to willingly hand their financial information over to Musk? I just can't see it happening, not a chance.

KYC validation is typically rolled out to receive payments (or airdrops) as an adoption strategy. People will give up their information to get money — it’s what both Amazon and stripe did precisely and it’s a common strategy.

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